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From: announcer@acorn.co.uk
Subject: Press Release: Archimedes edition of Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia released
Date: 6 Jul 93 07:57:58 GMT
The Acorn Archimedes edition of the Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, the
first British electronic encyclopedia, was released on 23rd May 1993.
Published by ATTICA Cybernetics Limited, it incorporates a large quantity
of colour photographs, sound clips and maps. This will be the first
multimedia encyclopedia available to Acorn computer users, which account
for approximately half of UK schools.
The Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, RISC OS version developed in
conjunction with PEP Associates, includes over 1500 photographs and
illustrations, maps, textual data and over 250 sound clips. This version
provides an absorbing and stimulating environment for library services in
business, government and education.
This CD-ROM title provides over 25,000 articles, thousands of
cross-references and hundreds of tables all classified under six headings:
Aspects of Society, History, The Arts, Places, Life Sciences and Science
and Technology. Upgrades from the text only version of this electronic
encyclopedia are available at a special price exclusively from Cumana
Limited.
The Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia comes with powerful retrieval
software supporting searches by individual and combinations of words, and
thousands of hypertext cross-references allowing you to browse freely
through the data. Text and pictures may be incorporated into school
projects by using standard word processing programmes.
The encyclopedia is published by ATTICA Cybernetics Limited, Unit 2, Kings
Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford, OX2 0DP, United Kingdom. Tel: 0865
791346. Fax: 0865 794561.
Price GBP149. Existing users of text only versions may upgrade to the
multimedia version for GBP75 by contacting Cumana Ltd on their CD-ROM
Helpline, telephone 0483 503121.
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