It's too bad I didn't know you back then, because you'd have loved the thing it was like a gigantic educational toy! You could even go into the prefs and choose different colors for different aspects of the text. The guy from whom I acquired my 3rd generation copy told me that Oxford had advised him that duplication of their neither up to date nor still distributed software was cool, but I knew people who wanted it, and I didn't care to distribute bootleg $800 software, so I contacted Oxford myself, and they were like 'Sure. The OED was released on CD-ROM for Mac and PC (for $800) in 1992, but the 2000 update was for PCs only, and further, since the original version was for OS 9, it ran in OS X in Classic Environment only, and only through Tiger. There's also an online version for a very nominal $295/year or $29.95/month. I beat joemike to the App Store, but dinner intervened, so he beat me to the post. Oxford English Dictionary (free version) download for Mac OS X I just found the following via Mr Google, but knowing nothing about the purveyor I'm a tad wary of accessing it:
