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- Title: COMPACT MED-BASE
- Publisher: Online Research
-
- Description: Covers the entire National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database
- for the last Twenty-Three years. The MEDLINE database contains information
- fromthree thousand of the world's leading medical journals. Possesses all the
- capabilities of and online MEDLINE system and also has other more
- advancedcapabilities. Allows search of five years at a time.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Requirements: IBM XT/AT or compatible
- Optional Items: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 20 Megabyte Hard Disk
- Ordering Information: $3,495.00 Annually. $3,995 outside the United States.
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: COMPACT LIBRARY: AIDS
- Publisher: The Medical Publishing Group
- Massachusetts Medical Society
-
- Description: Contains the Aids Knowledgebase from the San Francisco
- GeneralHospital, a subset of bibliographic references to Aids information from
- MEDLINE,the full test of Aids related articles from leading medical journals,
- and invited materials from organizations such as the World Health Organization.
- THe medical journals include Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical
- Journal, Lancet, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Nature and the New
- England Journal of Medicine.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM XT/AT or compatible; PS/2 Model 30
-
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.0, Hard Disk with
- 1 Megabyte Free
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: Under $1000 Title: COMPREHENSIVE MEDLINE/EBSCO CD-ROM
- Publisher: EBSCO Electronic Information
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM At or compatible
- Requirrrements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hard Disk
- Optional Items: Color monitor, modem, printer
- Ordering Information: $2,400 per year for annual subscription with
- quarterly updates.
-
- Title: COMPUTER LIBRARY
- Publisher: OCLC - The Online Computer Library Center
-
- Description: A bibliographic database containing 18,000,000 citations that have
- been inputed by member libraries. From this, citations covering all types of
- media including: books, manuscripts and a-v materials have been extracted
- on the topic of computers via LC and Dewey code. This extraction has produced a
- bilbliography of information for users. Materials dealing with computer
- applications, programming, industry data, and electronic
- communication.
-
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Ordering Information: $350 for an annual subscription, $300 for members.
-
- Title: CLUBMAC
- Publisher: Quantum Access Inc.
-
- Description: Extensive, highly organized collection of Apple Macintosh Public
- Domain, Shareware, and Demoware programs: with retrieval through
- HyperCard(Included on disc). Includes HyperCard stacks, applications, desk
- accessories, games, utilities, clip art, fonts and more. A large section is
- for educational applications.
-
- File Format: Apple HFS
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: Apple Macintosh 512, Plus, SE, II
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $199 for single edition, $350 for years subscription
-
- Title: CLIP ART 3-D
- Publisher: NEC Home Electronics (USA) Inc.
-
- Description: Clip Art 3-D contains several thousand three-dimensional images
- and fonts that can be customized by rotation, resizing, coloring and up to
- eight lighting-shadowing sources, and can join two images on screen to create
- a new image.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, Macintosh
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, VGA Graphics Card
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $399
- Demonstration Info.: No Demonstration Available
-
- Title: CENSUS TEST DISC #1
- Publisher: U.S. Bureau of the Census
- Systems & Programming Branch
-
- Description: Agriculture data for counties (1982 Census of Agriculture);
- demographic and housing data for 5 digit Zip Codes (Summary Tape File 3B from
- the 1980 census); population estimates for functioning governmental units.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT386 or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $125. Documentation is available for an $25 additional.
- The disc contains the user access programs.
-
- Title: CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE
- Publisher: Slater Hall Information Products, Inc.
-
- Description: The complete Census Bureau County File contains over 1900 data items
- for each County, with 1978 comparison. Summary statistics are provided
- for states, regions and the U.S.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Informaiton: $1,200. Discounts available for libraries,
- government agencies and quantity purchases.
-
- Title: CD-ROM DEMONSTRATION DISC
- Publisher: Knowledge Set Corporation
-
- Description: Demonstration disc to show the capabilities of the
- KnowledgeRetrieval System (KRS). Included on the disc is the 1986/87 directory,
- anaircraft component maintenance manual fragment, the Pergamon corporate
- directory, KRS software information International Encyclopedia of Education
- fragment, KRS Raster/Vector graphics demonstration, and Buckmaster Publshing's
- Ham Call Directory.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $19.95
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available
-
- Title: CD-PLAY
- Publisher: Compact Disk Products, Inc.
-
- Description: Demonstration is a pop-up utility that permits a user to play ALL
- audio CDs on Hitachi and compatible CD-ROM drives. Output is to headphones or
- amplifier. CD-Play and CD-Ausio File are the only products listed on the CD-ROM.
- Sourcedisc that are not actually CD-ROMs. A demonstration of each is available.
-
- File Format: N/A
- Update Frequency: One Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT and compatibles
- Requirements: CD-Rom drive (Hitachi or compatible).
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $89.00.
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: CANCERLIT CD
- Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
-
- Description: Prepared by the National Cancer Institute, Cancerlit gives
- clinicians and researchers access to cancer literature from over 3000 journals,
- conferences, reports, papers and books. A total of 600,000 citations are
- included. The disc includes four years of data and the current year.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $995 annaul subscription in the U.S.; $1095 annual
- subscription overseas
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: CANCER CD
- Publisher: SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
-
- Description: Cancer-CD contains data from CancerLit, EMBase and the Year Book
- of Cancer. Bibliographic citations and abstracts from 1983 to present are
- included in Cancer-CD.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 2.1
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: $1,750 for current disc (1983-present) with quarterly
- updates
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: BUSINESS INDICATORS
- Publisher: Slater Hall Information Products, Inc.
-
- Description: Disc contains three separate databases: (1) complete GNP accounts
- from 1929 to 1986, (2) business statistics by state and region, (3) income and
- employment figures by state and region. The business statistics file contains
- annual information from 1961 to 1985 and monthly from 1981 to 1986. A total of
- 1,900 economic time series as published monthly in the "Blue Pages" of the
- Commerce Department's Survey of Current Business are included in the database.
- Income and employment figures are given by state, with regional and national
- totals.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Monthly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $2,200 per year with montly updates. Discounts are
- available to government and library subscribers and
- for quantity purchases. $1,200 for an individual
- disc.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: BLUE SAIL ON CD-ROM
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: The Blue Sail Public Domain Software Library which contains over
- 1000 floppy disks of share ware and freeware programs, utilities and more. All
- files are stored in an archived format.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 10 Megabyte Hard Drive
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: $149.00 Suggested Retail Price; $90.00 Dealer Price;
- $749.00 with Amdek LaserDrive-1 CD-ROM Drive.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: BIBLIOMED
- Publisher: Digital Diagnostics, Inc.
-
- Description: BiblioMed contains over 300,000 Citations from the U.S. National
- Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database of medical literature. The data covers
- three years and over 500 journals.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $950 for annual subscription to BiblioMed with
- quarterly updates. $1,150 for combination of
- BiblioMed and AIDS (See AIDS title information).
- Sales tax, shipping, and handling are not included
- in the prices. $750 for a CD-ROM
- ROM drive purchased through Digital Diagnostics.
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: ARTROOM (tm)
- Publisher: Image Club Graphics Inc.
-
- Description: Contains more that one thousand PostScript images plus one hundred
- laser advertising fonts. The clip art is managed by a desk accessory called
- the ArtRoom Retriever and categorized according to libraries. You can click on
- the appropriate library, choose an image and the retriever will place the image
- into your application. The package comes with a reference catalog which
- outlines 150 color clip art images for the Macintosh II.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: Apple Macintosh
- Requirements: Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $995.00 includes Font Juggler.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: AQUATIC SCIENCES AND FISHERIES
- Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Cambridge Information Group
-
- Description: Database entries drawn from worldwide literature, including
- information supplied exclusively to Cambridge by: The United Nations Department
- of International Economic and Social Affairs: The Food And Agriculture
- Organization of the United Nations (FAO); The Intergovernmental Oceanographic
- Commision (IOC); and leading research centers throughout the world. Some of
- the topics covered include biological and ecological aspects of marine,
- freshwater and brackfish environments, fisheries, legal, economic and
- sociological studies, marine meterology and climatology, and oceanography.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $1,250 1987 subscription; $500 each for backfiles
- (1982-1986), quarterly updates.
- ROM drive purchased through Digital Diagnostics, Inc.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: ANY-BOOK
- Publisher: Library Corporation
-
- Description: Prices and other data for 1.5 million English-language book
- currently or recently in print; plus 22,000 publisher names and addresses.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $600 per year delivered quarterly
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: AMERICAN FEDERAL TAX REPORTS
- Publisher: Prentice Hall Information Network
-
- Description: American Federal Tax Reports 1973-1987 with P-H Headnotes and IRS
- code classifications.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Multiple Drives
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $2,500 with quantity discounts available
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: AIDS, INFORMATION & EDUCATION, WORLDWIDE
- Publisher: CD Resources/Decade Media
-
- Description: From Libraries-TO-GO (tm) CD-ROM Reference Collections, the AIDS
- disc contains data on the social aspects of AIDS, including legislation, policy,
- costs, and education information; the biological aspects of AIDS, including
- epidemiology, immunology, training, and procedures; and AIDS resources and
- reference directory including information on programs, organizations, and
- bibliographies.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT,PS/2 or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $1,295 for an annual subscription with semi-annual
- updates; $795 for a single disc. A 15-day trial is
- provided.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: AIDS SUPPLEMENT
- Publisher: Digital Diagnostics, Inc.
-
- Description: The AIDS Supplement is intended to accompany Digital Diagnostic's
- BiblioMed disc. The AIDS database is a subset of MEDLINE, selected by 47
- subject headings from all 3,800 journals. The disc contains over 40,000
- citations over a period of 6-8 years.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $395 for annual subscription with quarterly updates.
- $1,150 for AIDS Supplement with BiblioMed. Sales tax,
- shipping, and handling are not included in the prices.
- Subscription price includes a copy of MS-DOS CD-ROM
- Extensions. CD-ROM drive is available from Digital
- Diagnostics for $750.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: DUTOX
- Publisher: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc
-
- Description: Three databases. The first is a descriptive database of 1,500
- toxic chemicals and their safe exposure levels. THe second is the full-text of
- reviews of studies conducted by DuPont personnel. The third contains 4,000
- reports of two to two hundred pages generated by Haskel Laboratories.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $12,000 for annual subscription with three updates
- during the year, license for retrieval software and
- two editions of special studies by Haskell.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: DRUG INFORMATION CENTER
- Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Cambridge Information Group
-
- Description: Comprehensive database providing complete data for physicians,
- pharmacists, nurses and other health professionalds concerning both
- perscription and over the counter drugs. Includes three databases prepared by
- the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Drug Information Annual,
- Handbook on Injectable Drugs, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT,PS/2 or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $1,950 annual subscription in the United States;
- $2,145 annaul subscription overseas
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: DIRECTORY OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
- Publisher: American Library Association
-
- Description: Approximately 43,000 biographical entries derived from member lists
- of over 20 library and information-related associations in North America.
- Entries provide name/address, personal data, education and employment
- histories, subject specialties and consulting availability. Most data supplied
- by those submitting biographies. For use in identifying and analyzing
- individuals, demographic patterns, and other market data in the library and
- information profession.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1, Hard Disk
- Optional Items: Color Monitor
- Ordering Information: $495. Discount if ALA member. Purchasers of disc can
- purchase a CD-ROM drive for special discount
- of $795.00
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: DIE BIBEL: The Luther Bible
- Publisher: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft
-
- Description: Database comprising the Luthern version of the Bible. Developed
- with Bertelsmann Computer Beratungsdienst GmbH, the disc stores more than seven
- million words. The user can access the information by selecting verses or
- multicriteria choices through several keywords.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: Hard Disk Drive
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: DM 600 -- plus VAT
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: DeLORME'S WORLD ATLAS
- Publisher: DeLorme Mapping & Navigation System
-
- Description: Demonstration Disc shows continual map of the world with 16
- available scales with relevant layers of data for each; uses USGS maps, Census
- Bureau DIME files, state and highway maps, county and city maps.
-
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Custom Product
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/AT
- Requirements: NEC Multisync monitor, EGA Board Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: Contract Project.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: DARKROOM (tm)
- Publisher: Image Club Graphics Inc.
-
- Description: Stock photo library of more than 500 professional ready to use
- photos. Categories include: Sports, Lifestyle, Business and Travel. Comes
- with a full color reference catalog.
-
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: Apple Macintosh
- Requirements: Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $499.00 includes the archival program Stuff It
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: CONSCU/STATS I
- Publisher: Hopkins Technology
-
- Description: Contains the complete public use source data files on 1984 and
- 1972-3 Surveys of Consumer Expenditures (US Census/Bureau of Labor Statistics),
- including detailed interview and diary data.
-
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $49.00. Add $10.00 shipping outside the United States
- and Canada.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: COMSTOCK DESTOP PHOTOGRAPHY
- Publisher: Comstock Incorporated
-
- Description: A collection of stock photographs which may be used with Pagemaker
- and other programs excepting TIF files. It includes 449 photographs which may be
- called onto the screen and inserted into the page layout or document. Files have
- full grey scale.
-
- File Format: High Sierra/Apple HF
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or Compatible; Apple Macintosh Plus,
- SE, II
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $500 includes in-house reproduction rights, additional
- rights available.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: COMPUTER LIBRARY
- Publisher: Ziff Communications Company
-
- Description: Contains full-text reprints of ten computer magazines and abstracts
- from 120 other periodicals. Included are PC Week, PC Magazine, PC Tech
- Journal, Digital Review, Government Computer News, A+ Mac User, Lotus Magazine,
- Microsoft Systems Journal and the Committee of the ACM.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Monthly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1, Hard Disk with
- 500K Free
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $695 plus $25 shipping fee. A Sony CD-ROM drive may
- be obtained for $635.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: FEDERAL PROCUREMENT SYSTEM
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: GSA Supply Catalog; Titile 48 CFR; The Federal Acquisition
- Regulation (FAR), FIRMR and Title 41 CFR, Public Contracts and Property
- Management. Also include 75+ Megabytes of public domain software.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 10 Megabyte Hard Drive
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: $249.00 suggested retail price, $150.00 dealer price,
- $699.00 with an Amdek LaserDrive 1
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: FACTS ON FILE NEWS DIGEST CD-ROM
- Publisher: Facts on File, Inc.
-
- Description: The full text of the Facts On File News Digest for 1980-87 (with
- annual updates thereafter). Articles can be printed out in their entirety;
- other features include interactive tutorial, audit trail, customized searching
- and printout settings approximately 525 maps related to news stories.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible and Apple Macintosh Plus,
- SE and II
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $595 for current print subscribers, $695 otherwise.
- Annual updates $195.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: FABS ELECTRONIC BIBLE
- Publisher: Foundation of Advanced Biblical Studies
-
- Description: Includes five versions of the Bible: American Standard, King
- James, New International, Revised Standard, and Good News. The 18 books of the
- Apocrypha and Nave's Topical Bible Index are also included.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT IBM PS/2 Model 50 or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $299.00.
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: ELECTRONIC SWEET'S
- Publisher: Sweets Group McGraw-Hill Information Systems
-
- Description: Electronic Sweet's will initially have two components: SweetSearch
- and SweetSpec. SweetSearch is a quick and easy method to help design
- professionals identify specific products in the Sweet's Catalog Files that meet
- their design requirements. SweetSpec is an automated "expert" interactive
- system for the production of construction specification documents.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Modem
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: Controlled distribution to qualified recipients of the
- Sweet's General Building & Renovation and Engineering &
- Retrofit Catalog Files.
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: ELECTRONIC SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
- Publisher: Instant Software Generation
-
- Description: Contains demonstrations of sofware packages for use in a
- point-of-purchase system housed in retail computer stores.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Monthly
- Computer Compatibility: ISG System
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: Contact Instant Software Generation
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
- Publisher: Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
-
- Description: The hypertext version of the 20 volume Academic American
- Encyclopedia which includes 30,000 articles and 10 million words; the latest
- version includes 4000 new and revised articles and more sophisticated access
- methods.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC or compatible. Apple Macintosh Plus, SE, II
- Requirements: MS-DOS 3.0
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $395.00 for disc plus shipping and handling, 2 weeks
- delivery upon receipt of order, includes yearly
- updates; Philips drive also available through Grolier.
- $100 for upgrade with proof of purchase.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: ECON/STATS I
- Publisher: Hopkins Technology
-
- Description: Unabriged, indexed versions of the following eight public
- databases: Consumer Price Index, Export/Import Price Index, Capacity
- Utilization, Selected Interest Rates, Producer Price Index, Industrial
- Production Index, Money Stock 1959-1984, Industry Employment Hours and Earnings
- by State and Areas.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $49.00. Add $10.00 for shipping outside the United
- States and Canada.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: ADA ROM
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: ADA templates, utilities, source codes and 300 programs. (ADA
- is a high level government programming language.) Information was collected
- from the federal ADA public domain repository and several developer bulletin
- boards.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1, 10 Megabyte
- Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $99.00 Suggested Retail Price; $60.00 Dealer Price;
- $639.00 with Amdek LaserDrive-1 CD-ROM Drive.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: NATASHA: NATIONAL ARCHIVE ON SEXUALITY, HEALTH & ADOLESCENCE
- Publisher: Sociometrics Corporation
-
- Description: For the first time, researchers will have instant access to over
- 82 major studies of teen sexual behaviro which includes 39,815 variables. The
- large storage capacity of the CD-ROM publishing media will allow researchers to
- "re-analyze" the original data and to conduct "meta-analysis" across the 82
- studies. This product allows researchers to re-analyze original data sets and
- develop new studies based on variables in earlier studies of teenage pregnancy.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $495
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: MICROSOFT STAT PACK
- Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
-
- Description: A compilation of statistics on people, manufacturing, business,
- industry, trade, and agriculture that is searchable through key words.
- Operates as a stand alone product or in conjunction with most major word
- processing programs. Microsoft Stat Pack contains the following U.S.
- Government statistical publications: STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS OF THE UNITED
- STATES (population, income, expenditures, etc.), PUBLIC LAND STATISTICS
- (surveys, acquistions, energy, resources, etc.), BUSINESS STATISTICS
- (general business indicators, commodities, finance, etc.).
-
- File Format: ISO 9660
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT, PS/2 or 100% compatible
- Requirements: DOS 3.1, MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 2 DSDD Drives or
- 1 hard disk
- Optional Items: Microsoft Mouse
- Ordering Information: $125 suggested retail price
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTANT
- Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
-
- Description: Provides information needed to start, finance & manage a small
- business. Operates as a standalone product or with word processing programs.
- Over 200 publications are included on the disc from the Small Business
- Administration, other government agencies, & Deloitte Haskins & Sells. The
- information is easily accessible through key word searches. Major categories
- include planning and finance, accounting and general management, personnel
- management, marketing and advertising, crime and liability protection, doing
- business with government agencies, importing and exporting.
-
- File Format: ISO 9660
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT, PS/2 or 100% compatible
- Requirements: DOS 3.1, MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 2 DSDD drives or
- 1 and hard disk
- Optional Items: Microsoft Mouse
- Ordering Information: $149 suggested retail price
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: MICROSOFT BOOKSHELF
- Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
-
- Description: Microsoft Bookshelf provides writers with instant ELECTRONIC
- access to ten important writing resources: The American heritage Dictionary,
- Roget's II: Electronic Thesaurus, The World Almanac and Book of Facts,
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the Chicago Manual of Style, Houghton Mifflin
- Spelling Verifier and Corrector, Forms and Letters, US Zip Code Directory,
- Houghton Mifflin Usage Alert, Business Information Sources. Microsoft
- Bookshelf works as a standalone product or in conjunction with most major word
- processing programs.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible; PS/2 or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items: Microsoft Mouse
- Ordering Information: $295 Suggested Retail Price
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: MASTER SEARCH BIBLE
- Publisher: Tri Star Publishing
-
- Description: Three versions of the Bible together with reference materials;
- geographical, archaeological and historical works; Bible dictionaries,
- encyclopedias, and histories of the Old and New Testaments.
-
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $395 introductory price, $495
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: LAWMARC
- Publisher: UTLAS International
-
- Description: Cataloging data; Union list of major law collections. 500,000
- bibliographic records including Library of Congree law collection; MARC format
- data paralleling LAWNET database online in UTLAS CATSS System.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC and compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: To be determined
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: LASERGUIDE
- Publisher: General Research Corporation
-
- Description: A patron access catalog for libraries. GRC records the library's
- bibliographic cataloging infomation on CD-ROM discs. The comprehensive
- LaserGuide Software provides the library patrons with fully indexed access to all
- cataloging information. LaserGuide now offers instant and transparent updates.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Custom Project
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT, IBM PS/2 Model 30 or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: Price quoted upon request, delivery 60 days.
- Hitachi drives also available.
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: KIRK-OTHMER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
-
- Description: The Kirk-Othmer Enclyclopedia of Chemical Technology is Wiley's
- standard reference work on chemistry and the chemical industry and covers such
- topics as theory and practice of chemical engineering, natural and synthetic
- polymers, plastics, fuels and energy and industrial and consumer chemicals.
- The entire contents of the 24 volume work-nearly 1200 articles plus index and
- supplements are included in the CD-ROM edition.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $895 suggested retail price
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: GEODISC: U.S. ATLAS
- Publisher: Geovision, Inc.
-
- Description: Complete USA digital map database, including roads, railroads,
- waterways, political boundaries, place names, census data, and federal lands.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT/386, IBM PS/2 or compatible, Apple
- Macintosh SE, II
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Mouse, EGA, color/graphics
- printer-plotter
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $495, Software sold separartely for $495
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
- Title: PDQ
- Publisher: SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
-
- Description: The Physician's Data Query database from the National Cancer
- Institute. Consists of treatment informaiton, plus key citations about various
- cancers, treatment protocols, and a comprehensive directory of physicians and
- organizations involved in the treatment of cancer.
-
- File Format: Info. unavailable
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $75 annual subscription rate.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PC-BLUE ON DISC
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: Public Domain Software from the Public Domain Software Copying
- Company. PC-Blue is a registered trademark of the New York Amateur Computer
- Club.
-
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, PS/2
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $199.00 Listed Price; $120 Dealer Price; $749.00 with
- Amdek LaserDrive 1
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE ON FILE CD-ROM
- Publisher: Facts on File, Inc.
-
- Description: A diverse collection of nearly 200 public domain software programs
- for the Apple II family of computers. All programs have been thoroughly tested
- and debugged and can be freely copied to disk by the user. The disc includes
- programs for entertainment, business, word processing and home management.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Apple IIe, IIgs
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $195.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PUBLIC DOMAIN SHAREWARE HYPERCARD STACK
- Publisher: Laser Optical Technology (LOT)
-
- Description: 4,860 differnt programs, files, and databases; public domain,
- shareware, and stackware programs for use in many applications. Categories
- include draw, education, entertainment, filevision, fonts, games, music,
- hypercard, paint, printer utilities, video, word processing utilities.
-
- File Format: Apple HFS
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Apple macintosh
- Requirements: SCSI Interface
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $300 if purchased alone; free with pruchase of CD-ROM
- drive from Laser Optical Technology for $1,909.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: POWDER DIFFRACTION FILE
- Publisher: International Centre for Diffraction Data
-
- Description: Database of the Powder Diffraction File information collected
- since 1940. Used to identify unknown compounds, specifically those in
- crystalline or a solid state, the powder diffraction file on disc contains
- 48,000 different compounds.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 10 Megabute Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: Not yet available
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PLACE-NAME-INDEX
- Publisher: Buckmaster Publising
-
- Description: Collection of over one million place names collected from
- quadrangle maps of the U.S. Geological Service. Each record contains: place
- name, state, county, feature type, elevation, longitude and latitude,
- quad map name and serial number. Map features include: populated places,
- locales, hospitals, schools, cementaries, dams, lakes, rivers, valeys, trails,
- parks, caves and beaches.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items: Printer, color screen
- Ordering Information: $595 per year (lease). $2995.00 outright purchase.
- Money back-full satisfaction guarantee. Free
- replacement disc if lost or stolen.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PHYSICIANS DESK REFERENCE ON CD-ROM
- Publisher: Medical Economics Company
-
- Description: The database is segregated by brand, therapeutic category,
- interactions, adverse reaction, generic ingredient and manufacturer. The
- interactions index provides the user with a list of all potential
- incompatibilities with any drug selected. The advers reactions index helps to
- quickly identify any drugs in a patient's regimen that could be causing
- untoward effects. The disc helps the user compare idications,
- contra-indications and precautions for two likely prescriptions. Free
- text search capability with standard Boolean Operators.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: 4395.00. $595 for 1989 subscription with two updates
- during the year. 10% discount on additional orders.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PETERSON'S COLLEGE DATABASE
- Publisher: SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
-
- Description: Contains over 3,200 profiles of all accredited, degree granting
- colleges in the United States and Canada. Each profile contains information
- about student enrollment, ethinic/geographic mix, SAT/ACT score ranges and
- admissions, expenses, financial aid, special programs, housing and campus life,
- athletics, majors, and more.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 2.1
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: $595.00 for an annual subscription
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PAF-ROM: POST OFFICE ADDRESS FILE ON CD-ROM
- Publisher: British Post Office
-
- Description: PAF-ROM 2 contains the address and postcode for every address in
- Britian; some 23.5 million addresses and 1.5 million postcodes in all. Data is
- arranged using a content addressable filing system. Every word on the file is
- indexed, entered into a data dictionary, compiled and sorted into sequence with
- every occurrence listed. In total there are four separate files on the CD-ROM:
- dictionary, occurrences, displacements and text.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Floppy Drive
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: 2,500 Pounds + VAT for a 2-year subscription;
- 249 pounds for "hot-line" support for software
- inquiries.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
-
- Description: Database that includes the original 17 volume Oxford English
- Dictionary. A guide to the history and evolution of he language and one of the
- greatest works of scholarship ever produced. Also included is the Oxford-Duden
- Pictorial and the Oxford-Dunden Bilingual Pictorial Dictionaries are being
- meshed into a 15-language version on CD-ROM to provide a tool for technical
- translation between any two of the fifteen languages. The edition is split
- on two discs, A-N and O-Z.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items: EGA card necessary to see special characters.
- Ordering Information: 500 pounds (plus VAT is UK). No regualr updates. A
- revised version, including the supplements, will be
- prepared in the future.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: NATIONAL METEOROGOICAL CENTER GRID POINT DATA SET
- Publisher: University of Washington
-
- Description: Data from 1948 to 1985 including: winds, temperature, humidity and
- pressure for the entire Northern Hemisphere.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, MicroVAX II, others to be
- interfaced later.
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $50 for Universities; $100 for others
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: YOUR MARKETING CONSULTANT: BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS
- Publisher: Knowledge Access International
-
- Description: More than 3,000 counties, metros, ADIs & DMAs. Information includes
- 40 important consumer variables from the same database used for the "Survey of
- Buying Power", including population, households, buying power index, retail
- sales, etc. Allows user to select and rank by target markets.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hercules Graphics Card,
- MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items: Color
- Ordering Information: $950 with annual update
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: YOUR MARKETING CONSULTANT: ADVANCED CONSUMER
- Publisher: Knowledge Access International
-
- Description: The database covers more than 3,000 counties, metropolitan areas,
- ADIs & DMAs. Information includes 39 important consumer variables from the
- same database used for the "Survey of Buying Power", including population,
- households, buying power index, retail sales, etc. Allows user to select and
- rank by target markets. Database: Market Statistics
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hercules Graphics Card
- Optional Items: Color
- Ordering Information: $950 with annual update.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: WHO IS - IN WASHINGTON
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: A directory/manual of government positions and policy. Contains
- The US Government Manual, the Congressional Directory, the US Government Policy
- and Supporting Positions ("The Plum Book"), and excerpts from the federal
- Personnel Manual.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, 10 Megabyte Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $99.00 suggested retail price, $60 dealer price.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: UNIVERSE OF SOUNDS IN SOUND DESIGNER FORMAT
- Publisher: Optical Media International, Inc.
-
- Description: Each of the two discs contain digital sound samples in generic
- format. These sound sample files can be loaded into a Macintosh Computer with
- the Apple CD SC and Hypercard. The discs contain acoustic instrument samples,
- sound effects, synthesizer sounds and percussion.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Apple Macintosh plus, SE, II; Atari ST
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $595.00 each
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: ULRICH'S PLUS
- Publisher: Bowker Electronic Publishing
-
- Description: Complete contents of "Ulrichs International Periodicals Directory."
- Contains data on 92,000 periodicals in 534 subject categories, more than 46000
- serials, annuals and conference proceedings. Also included is "Irregular
- Serials and Annuals" plus an ISSN idex listing more than 75,000 current and
- 13,800 former ISSN titles.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible; PS/2 with OCS's Interface
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions Optional
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $395 annual subscription with quarterly updates.
- Three year subscription $1,126 billable annually.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: TOXICHEM: Hazardous Chemicals Database
- Publisher: Zedtronics Pty. Ltd.
-
- Description: A hazardous chemical fire database for use in fire engines. The
- Fire Department hopes to make the data available internationally, once the data
- which is subject to approval by insurance copanies outside of Australia, is
- approved.
-
- File Format:
- Update Frequency:
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items: Printer
- Ordering Information: Contact The Secretary, Western Australia Fire Brigades
- Board 480 Hay Street, Perth, W.A. 6000, Western
- Australia.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: TLG DISC A: Thesaurus Linguae Gracae
- Publisher: University of California at Irvine
-
- Description: Database of ancient Greek literature representing 3,000 authors up
- to 600 AD, such as Greek historians, medical writers, philosophers, dramatists
- and poets. Final product is provided in both original Greek character and
- Roman alphabet.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Varied options
- Computer Compatibility: Ibycus Scholarly Computer or IBM PC/XT/AT
- Requirements: 2 floppy drives, or a floppy and hard disk
- configuration.
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $200 for first year license; $100 for each additional
- year.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: TIME TABLE OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
- Publisher: Xiphias
-
- Description: Complete history of scientific development covering over 6000
- important events. Will include graphics and sound.
-
- File Format: Apple HFS
- Update Frequency: One-Time purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Apple Macintosh Plus, SE, II
- Requirements: HyperCard
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $150.00
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
- Title: THE VISUAL DICTIONARY
- Publisher: Facts on File, Inc.
-
- Description: A multimedia dictionary which uses CD-quality audio and computer
- graphics to define 1,661 terms in both English and French of 117 images. One
- can search in both languages with specific commands or browse through lists of
- words, pictures and general themes. Interactive tutorial included.
- Integration of audio, graphics and text.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Undecided
- Computer Compatibility: Apple IIe, IIgs, Macintosh, IBM PC/XT/AT, Atari ST
- and MEGA
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: Price not yet available.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE VIRGINIA DISC: An Evaluation of Locally Produced CD-ROM
- Products
- Publisher: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Department of Computer Science
-
- Description: There will be two discs, containing a variety of databases.
- Included will be at least the following: 1. Virginia Tech Library's MARC Coded
- Holdings for serials 2. Viginia State Library's "Virginiana Collection"
- 3. Virginia VIEW database on Jobs, educational opportunities, occupation in
- Virginia 4. Interamerican Compendium of Registered Veterinary Drugs by
- country of approval 5. Survey Data (Viginia state plane coordinate system)
- 6. Selected pucblications from the Virginia Tech Extension Division
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Limited Distribution
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC or PS/2, possibly Macintosh II Requirements:
- MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items: More functionality will result from larger faster
- systems.
- Ordering Information: 100 copies of each of te two discs will be distributed
- free of charge to selected Virginia universities and
- libraries, reserchers, extension offices, interested
- government agencies, etc. Other copies can be
- obtained by those with a suitable interest if ordered by
- the end of 1987.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PAPERS
- Publisher: Optical Media International, Inc.
-
- Description: Contains the United States Constitution Papers and an audio file,
- "Heartland/An American Anthem", composed, arranged and performed by Christopher
- L. Stone using OMI's music and sound effects library disc, the Universe of
- Sounds.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $29.95
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE SOFTWARE DU JOUR DISC DUEX
- Publisher: DiscGotech
-
- Description: Contains 365 of the most popular domain freeware/shareware programs,
- text files, and utilities.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Info. unavailable
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $29.95 plus $3.05 shipping and handling
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: THE SCIENCE HELPER K-8
- Publisher: PC-SI
-
- Description: Science helper K-8 is a powerful educational tool for teachers,
- curriculum committees, researchers, and publishers that contains almost 1,000
- science and mathematics lesson plans for kindergarten through eighth grade.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1, Hard Disk,
- Monochrome Graphics Color Graphics
- Optional Items: Color Graphics
- Ordering Information: $195.00; CD-ROM drive available for $995.
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE CD-ROM SOURCEDISC
- Publisher: Diversified Data Resources, Inc.
-
- Description: Database includes specifications for each commercially available
- CD-ROM title along with ordering information and a demonstration of the disc
- title, as provided by the publisher. In addition, there is information on the
- subject of CD-ROM, such as a glossary of CD-ROM related terms, technical
- informaiton from CD DATA REPORTING, fulltext of THE NEW PAPYRUS and OPTICAL
- PUBLISHING, both from Microsoft press, a CD-ROM Acronym Directory, and other
- information to assist others in learning more about CD-ROM and its applications.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items: EGA Monitor, Windows 2.0 and mouse for Windows version
- Ordering Information: $89.95 suggested retail price; includes runtime
- version of Microsoft Windows 2.0, Windows Personal
- Librarian, and Personal Librarian
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: THE PC-SIG LIBRARY
- Publisher: PC-SIG
-
- Description: More than 12,000 application programs representing more than 1,000
- floppy diskettes of public domain and user-supported software. In the 5th
- edition of this disc, wordprocessor, spreadsheet, database, banguage, utility,
- game graphic, home educational programs are included. ALl the programs are
- fully functional and most include extensive documentation. PC-SIG's directory
- structure lets users issue standard DOS commands to copy or run programs from
- the CD-ROM disc. PC-SIG has included menu driven program demonstrator to
- locate descriptions of software packages.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $295.00 single subscription. $495.00 with an update
- in six months.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE DECUS FALL 1986 CD-ROM DISC #1
- Publisher: DECUS International Program Library
-
- Description: Public Domain Software Solutions that will run on a Digital
- Equipment Corporation CD Reader. Selections: DECUS Software Library Catalog
- (1986/1987), VAX Sig Symposia Collection Fall 1984 - Spring 1986.
-
- File Format: ISO 9660
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Q BUS Digital
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $100.00
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
-
- Title: THE DECUS SPRING 1987 CD-ROM DISC #2
- Publisher: DECUS International Program Library
-
- Description: Public Domain Library Catalog (1986/1987), VAX Library Tape
- containing approximately 30 public domain software programs for Digital
- Equipment computers, PC-8088 collection 1-8 #4 which has a large selection of
- PC-8088 programs that are in the public domain.
-
- File Format: ISO 9660
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Q BUS Digital
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $100.00
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE BIBLE LIBRARY
- Publisher: Ellis Enterprises, Inc.
-
- Description: Database containing nine versions of The Bible along with related
- dictionaries, commentaries and word study books, hymn stories and sermon
- outlines & illustrations. Bible versions included are the American Standard,
- Living, Literal English Translation, Romanized Hebrew-Greek, King James, New
- International, New King James, Revised Standard Version and Simple English New
- Testament.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT, PS/2 or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $595 + $10 shipping.
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE HOLY BIBLE (KING JAMES VERSION)
- Publisher: Optical Media International, Inc.
-
- Description: The King James Version of the Bible, including graphics. The
- Bible is accessibility by chapter and verse. Pictures of animals are viewable
- with Hercules (or better) graphics.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hercules Graphics Card,
- MS-DOS 2.1
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $39.95
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE DECUS SPRING 1988 CD-ROM DISC #3
- Publisher: DECUS International Program Library
-
- Description: Public Domain Software Library Catalog (1987/1988), containing
- approximately 30 public domain software programs for the Digital Equipment
- computers.
-
- File Format: ISO 9660
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: Q BUS Digital
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $100.00
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: THE $99.00 DISC
- Publisher: ALDE Publishing
-
- Description: Contains public domain, freeware and shareware programs including
- utilities, word processing, programming, source codes and databases.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, MS-DOS 3.1, 10 Megabyte
- Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $99.00 Suggested Retail Price; $60.00 Dealer Price;
- $639.00 with Amdek LaserDrive-1 CD-ROM Drive. Updated
- bi-yearly.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: SOUNDS OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
- Publisher: CEDROM Technologies
-
- Description: The disc contains the sound database of the French language.
- Database is to used with a sound synthesizer.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/AT
- Requirements: Sound Synthesizer board Extended MS-DOS
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: 100 copies sold in France
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: REX: RELIGIOUS INDEX
- Publisher: Foundation of Advanced Biblical Studies
-
- Description: Contains 30 volumes of Religious and Theological Abstracts. The
- abstracts cover 200 journals in the area of religion and theology.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT and compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $895. Annual Subscription rate of $495.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: LAWBASE
- Publisher: Ibis Service AG
-
- Description: Database comprising all judgements and opinions published by the
- Swiss Federal Court since 1960.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements:
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: SFR 7.900, plus VAT full version including the CD-ROM
- drive. Yearly updates are available for SFR 2.800,
- plus VAT
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: PRIVATE LETTER RULINGS
- Publisher: Prentice Hall Information Network
-
- Description: Private letter rulings, 1977-1986. Full-text research with P-H
- Headnotes and IRS code classifications.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: Multiple drives
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $2,500 with quantity discounts available.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: REVENUE RULINGS & PROCEDURES
- Publisher: Prentice Hall Information Network
-
- Description: Revenue rulings and revenue procedures 1954-1986. (with P-H
- Headnotes, IRS code clasificaitons, on P-H citation entries tracking history of
- rulings/procedures.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions Multiple drives
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $2,500 with quantity discounts available.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.
-
- Title: GEODISC: FLORIDA
- Publisher: Geovision, Inc.
-
- Description: Contains geographical information on Florida's highways, roads and
- trails, rivers, streams and creeks, pipelines, power transmission lines, county
- boundaries, census tracts and other features.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: One-Time Purchase
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT/386, IBM PS/2 or compatible, Apple
- Macintosh SE, II
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Mouse, color/graphics
- printer-plotter, EGA
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $1,995, Software sold separrately for $495.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available.quires EGA card and
-
- Title: ADDRESS VERIFICATION SYSTEM PLUS (AVS+)
- Publisher: Information Update
-
- Description: Includes all addresses in the United States. Approximately 110
- million in all. Apartment, Buildings, Street, City, State and Zip +4 Code. Also
- includes business and institutional names.
-
- File Format: Proprietary
- Update Frequency: Quarterly
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT and compatibles
- Requirements: 10 Megabyte Hard Disk
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $3,950 with quarterly updates and retrieval software
-
- Demonstration Info: Demonstration Available
-
- Title: LIFE SCIENCES
- Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Cambridge Information Group
-
- Description: Cambridge Scientfic Abstracts Life Sciences database from January
- 1983 to August 1985. Abstracts and citations from more than 5,000 core journals,
- books, serial mongraphs, conference reports, international patents, and
- statistical publications.
-
- File Format: High Sierra
- Update Frequency: Semi-Annual
- Computer Compatibility: IBM PC/XT/AT or compatibles
- Requirements: MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions
- Optional Items:
- Ordering Information: $1,500.00 for 1986-87 subscription, $750 for 1984-85
- backfiles; $750 for 1982-83 backfiles.
-
- Demonstration Info: No Demonstration Available
- MICROSOFT BOOKSHELF
- CD-ROM Reference Library by Microsoft
-
- Whether you make your living with words or just use a lot of them, Mircrsoft
- Bookshelf-a collection of ten of the most useful reference sources and writing
- tools - helps make your writing more interesting and precise. It's the next
- great tool! For the first time you can have instant access to an electronic
- "bookshelf" of information and tools while writing at your computer. Search
- for a particular word or browse through a table of contents, an index or the
- entire reference work. Mark passages for later recall with the Bookmark
- feature. Scroll through a large table and compare columns by locking one
- column while scrolling others or by hiding intervening columns. Microsoft
- Bookshelf is a memory-resident, so it's always available. Copy and paste
- information from a reference work into your document and use other commands
- and features by convenient drop-down menus.
-
- You have instant access to:
- * The American Heritage Dictionary a widely acclaimed dictionary that offers
- over 200,000 definitions, including new words and contemporary meanings.
-
- * Roget's II: Electronic Thesaurus; the electronic version of the classic
- thesaurus with 500,000 synonyms to add variety to your writing.
-
-
- * The World Almanac and Book of Facts, a treasury of more than a million facts
- about politics, sports, history, and other world topics.
-
- * Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, a classic source of more than 22,500
- quotations from Mozart to Mick Jagger.
-
- * The Chicago Manual of Style, 13th Edition, the standard "how to" book for
- anyone who writes, providing quidance about everything from style and format to
- rights and permissions.
-
- * Houghton Mifflin Spelling Verifier and Corrector, a phonetically based
- spelling checker that helps you correct your spelling and capitalization,
- offering alternatives for misspelled words.
-
- * Forms and Letters, a collection of more than 100 letters, outlines, checklists,
- and forms that can be used as templates and customized as needed.
-
- * U.S. ZIP Code Directory, which quickly provides the five-digit ZIP code for
- any address in the United States.
-
- * Houghton Mifflin Usage Alert, a word-usage checker that helps you identify
- common errors in word usage, such as compliment versus complement.
-
- * Business Information Source, a guide that lists thousands of references-
- business journals, research reports, databases, and names of agencies and
- government offices - for information and statistics on finance, economics, and
- marketing.
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 (model 25 or 30) or fully compatible; 640K ROM; DOS 3.1 or
- greater, two floppy drives or one floppy with a hard drive; and a CD-ROM disc
- drive.
-
- PUBLIC DOMAIN FREEWARE/SHAREWARE
- By Alde Publishing
-
- Public Domain Freeware/Shareware is the first CD-ROM disc to break the $100.00
- barrier. The over 2,500 public domain programs were compiled from the archives
- of several PC bulletin boards & include such categories as PC utilities, Lotus,
- and D-Base utilities, as well as educational and communication programs and
- games.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT or compatible; 640K RAM; a floppy and hard disk drive; CD-ROM
- drive.
-
- Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology plus
- Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms
- By McGraw-Hill
-
- The Encyclopedia contains 7,300 articles, everything from Astronomy to Zoology.
- It is designed to present essential information in a practical, consise format.
- The Dictionary features 98,500 terms and 115,500 definitions selected and
- reviewed by aurthorities in specialized fields. Users can locate information by
- word or phrase, and articles can be selected from a summary list. Search terms
- are highlighted to spotlight answers and dictionary definitions are viewed
- through window overlays. Users who have Reference Technology's Docusystem will
- enjoy the disc's high resolution graphics, illustrations and photographs.
-
- Now you can have accurate and authoritative reference coverage of all the
- physical, earth and life sciences, plus engineering - all at the touch of a
- keystroke! Its powerful search software lets you retrieve any article by key
- title or phrase - and it quickly scans the entire database for hard-to-find
- information.
-
- Once you've located the information you need, you can capture it three ways:
- You can print it out on hard copy, download it onto a diskette, or send it
- to your word processor. Any way you need in, the McGraw-Hill CD-ROM Set
- delivers.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM XT or AT with 640K RAM; PC DOS 2.0 or later; for graphics option the
- Docusystem is required; a CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- ANIMATION WORKSHOP
- By Aegis Development Inc.
-
- Create multi media presentations with Animation Workshop using amination,
- converted video or film motion sequences ot produce television like effects on
- your Macintosh. Animation routine consists of several modules including a
- programmable slide show, a solid 3D animation generator, an animation image
- compression system, a full featured video titling system with cell animation
- and ADO-style abilities and an animation player. This creative program allows
- the user to create and compress over 30MB of animation to 755K, then play it
- back from disc at the rate of 15 to 30 frames per second. And like other good
- Macintosh software, it can be combined with Hypercard to create some pretty
- amazing multi-media, interactive products.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- Macintosh II computer, one floppy disk drive, a hard disk, at least one megabyte
- of RAM and a CD-ROM drive.
-
- U.S. ATLAS GEOdisc & WINDOWS 386
-
- U.S. Atlas GEOdisc gives a user the ability to go from an overview of the entire
- U.S. down to county level detail, including roads, waterways, political
- boundaries, railroads, federal areas, and place names files. The state series
- GEOdisc provide a spectrum of geographic information from the state level down
- to city block level detail. Our Windows On the World (WOW) applications platform
- allows a user to create graphics, text or symbol overlays appropriate to his
- application, and to ink information from external databases to the map.
-
- Current Capabilities: Available Information:
- * Zoom to 64K * Highways, Roads, and Trails
- * Query by Map, Coordinates, Place * Railroads
- * Create, display and modify * Rivers, Streams and Creeks
- over-lays, store composite of * Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs
- graphics, text and symbols to * Pipe Lines, Power Transmission Lines
- Hard disk. * County Boundaries, Census Tracts
- * Import and Link User-specified * Place and Landmark Names
- Attribute Data, e.g., Population, * Topographic Detail
- Flow-rates, Directory Listings. * Land Use and Cover
- * Cut and Paste Map Images to Test
- and Other Documents.
- * Print Composite or Separates on
- Ink Jet, Dot Matrix, Pen or Laser
- Printer/Plotters in B&W or Color.
- * Pass Attribute Data to Database or
- Spreadsheet Programs.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 (model 25, 30) or fully compatible; 640K RAM with EGA
- Monitor; Hard disk and one 1.2MB floppy disk; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
-
- SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTANT
- By Microsoft
-
- The Small Business Consultant from Microsoft provides valuable information
- on starting and running a small business. Over 220 government publications
- are on the disc, including publications from the Small Business Administration,
- Department of Commerce, Veterans Administration as well as several
- publications from the accounting from of Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Designed to
- answer the questions most commonly asked by small business operators, the
- Small Business Consultant includes information on planning, starting and
- running a small business, bank loans, advertising and general management.
- It will be useful tool in any business lab or library.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible; 512K RAM, 2 Floppy Drives or Hard Disk;
- DOS 3.1 or higher; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE ON FILE
- By Electronic Publishing for Facts on File, Inc.
-
- This is a collection of nearly 200 thoroughly tested, debugged and user-friendly
- software in the public domain for Apple II series users. It is specifically
- tailored to the needs of libraries and their patrons. The programs for beginners
- to advanced users, cover a broad spectrum of applications from business and
- personal finance to speed reading, entertainment, word processing, and home
- management. The PDSOF collection is menu-driven by topic and designed for
- easy access and operation.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- Apple IIGS, IIe, CD-ROM disc drive SCSI Port.
-
- DIRECTORY OF LIBRARY AND
- INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
- By Information Technology Publishing
-
- The Directory provides the latest data on approximately 45,000 individuals in
- the information community. A valuable research and reference tool for reference
- librarians, personnel offices, professional recruiters and employee search
- committees, educators, library suppliers, and nominating committees in library
- and information associations and networks.
-
- The Database is a collaborative project of Research Publications and the
- American Library Assoc., with special participation of the Special Libraries
- Assoc., American Society for Information Science, Information Industry Assoc.,
- Medical Library Assoc., and information associations in North America.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC or fully compatible; 640K RAM; DOS 3.1 or higher; CD-ROM disc drive
- (Amdek, HITACHI, or Sony) with MS-DOS extensions.
-
- SOFTWARE-CD
- By SilverPlatter
-
- SOFTWARE-CD contains over 10,00 listings of software packages for the business,
- professional, and technical communities. It describes features and functions of
- software packages; lists the name, address and telephone number of the
- manufacturer; includes information on mini, micro, and mainframe computers,
- operating systems, programming languages, prices, potential users, date first
- available, installed based, related packages, and other services from the
- manufacturer. Updated semiannually.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC or fully compatible; one floppy drive; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- THE ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
- By Grolier
-
- The Electronic Encyclopedia is a revolutionary new kind of information tool -
- the entire text of the ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA (9 million words, more
- than 30,000 articles) contained on a single compact disc. This massive
- database - over 110 Megabytes of text and indexing - provides the latest
- information on science and technology, the arts, geography, medicine, social
- science, contemporary life, law, sports, and much more. Yet all this
- information - the full spectrum of knowledge - is just a few keystrokes away,
- because any word or word combination can be accessed in seconds using
- KnowledgeSet's incredibly powerful search and retrieval software, the Knowledge
- Retrieval System.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT and compatibles with 256K RAM; Monitor; CD-ROM disc drive.
- Macintosh and Apple II configurations available, call JASON for Systems
- requirements.
-
- PRAVDA ON CD-ROM
- By Alde Publishing
-
- Pravda on CD-ROM is fully indexed disc containing the last two years (1986-87)
- of the English translation of Pravda. For seventy years now the newspaper has
- been the foremost indicator of Kremlin thinking. As an organ of the Central
- Committee of teh Communitst Party of the Soviet Union, Pravda speaks with the
- highest authority. Full text of official speeches and announcements are
- published regularly. Pravda is truly a window into official Soviet culture.
- Now with Pravda CD-ROM, new accessibility to the Communist Party of the Soviet
- Union is granted to anyone interested in Soviet policy.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT or compatible, 640K RAM, a floppy drive, hard disk drive; CD-ROM
- disc drive.
-
- ARCHIVE OF TEEN SEX BEHAVIOR
- AND PREGNANCY PREVENTION
- By Knowledge Access, Inc.
-
- For the first time researchers will have instant access to over 100 major
- studies of teen sex behavior, which includes more than 40,000 variables.
- This will allow researchers not only to reanalyze the original data, but also
- to conduct meta-analysis across the 100+ studies. The comparative analysis of
- statistical data that used to take months of a researcher's time, can now be
- accomplished in hours thanks to the power and versatility of CD-ROM technology.
- Special features include "directory retrieval" to allow users access to variable
- names and labels as well as data set summary screens; and "cross-tab" to enable
- the user to do cross-tabulation in the absence of a standard statistical
- package.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC or compatible 512K or RAM & MS-DOS of 3.1 or higher; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- THE PC-SIG LIBRARY
-
- This incredible disk in the equivalent of 800+ floppy diskettes of IBM-PC and
- compatible software contained on one incorruptable CD-ROM disk. The PC-SIG
- Library has fully-functional, professional quality programs in just about any
- software category you can imagine, including word-processor, spread-sheet,
- database, language, utility, game, graphic, home and educational and many other
- special-use programs. With a clearly-organized directory structure, the PC-SIG
- CD-ROM Library allows your CD-ROM player to function much like a very large disk
- drive.
-
- Here is a sample of some of the titles included in the PC-SIG Library disk
-
- * Wordprocessors, Spreadhseets
- & Databases * Language & Utilities Programs
- PC-Write Finance FreeCalc Pascal Compiler Copy/Uncopy
- PC-Type+ Lotus & Symphony Cross Assembler Encode/Decode
- PC-Outline Worksheets for IBM 370 Bakers Dozen
- New York Word PC-File Laxon & Perry Printer
- Galaxy ABC Database Fort XLISP
- PC-Calc FreeFile C & Pascal Util. Hard Disk
- Desktop File Express CHASM-Cheap Automenu
- ExpressCalc PC-DBMS Assembler PC-Desteam
-
- * Teaching and Educational * Graphics and Games
- Flash Cards Basic C & Pascal Designer PC-Chess
- Vocabulary & Tutors Basic Paint Spacewar
- Spelling Foreign Languages Slide Generation Games Series 1-17
- T-Score IQBuild PC-Graph Greatest Arcade
- Teacher's Spec. History, Music & DANCAD-3D Games
- PC-Professor Math Tutors Pinball Rally
- Touchtype
- * Business and Financial * Entertainment and Home
- Inventory Prog. Stock Mkt. Analyzer PC-Musician MicroGourmet
- PC-Gen. Ledger Budgetrak Extra Sensory Home Finance
- PC-Payroll PC-Money Perception PC-Check
- EZ-Forms Real Estate System Trivia 1 & 2 Home Inventory
- Project Mgmt. Teleware-Cashtrac Monopoly PC System
- Finance Mgr. II Form Letters Kidgames Life Forms
- Bridge Pal Home Application
- Bible Q & Weather
- Funnels & Buckets
-
- * Communications (including
- Bulletin Boards) * Other
- Qmodem Host-III Math/Science/ Artifical
- Procomm IBM-BBS Statistics Intelligence
- PC-Dial RBBS Bible Study Desktop Managers
- And many other
- special applications
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM, PC, XT, AT, PS/2 (model 25 or 30); 128K RAM; DOS 3.1 or higher;
- a CD-ROM player.
-
- Kwikee INHOUSE Graphic Services
- By Multi-Ad Services, Inc.
-
- This product is targeted at the Apple Macintosh. Full product includes a
- CD-ROM, INHOUSE Layout Department software, INHOUSE Communications Link, and
- a newsletter called INHOUSE Monthly. The disc contains high-quality vector-
- graphics art for a sophisticated INHOUSE desktop publishing environment.
- Included software permits the manipulation of the art, and inclusion of it and
- any text into a layout program. 900 additional pieces of art are expected to be
- added to the system each year.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- Apple Macintosh Plus; Toshiba or Philips CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- STAT PACK
- By Microsoft
-
- The Microsoft Stat Pack contains thousands of facts and figures. A compilation
- of official U.S. Government facts and figures on the economy, politics,
- demographics, manufacturing, industry, trade, agriculture, and business. The
- Stat Pack replaces volumes of reference material with a single disk. Users of
- Stat Pack will find statistical information quickly and easily enhancing
- productivity by eliminating time consuming searches. It is far more affordable
- than either on line data bases or other CD-ROM data bases providing similar
- information. Best of all Stat Pack is compatible with all the leading word
- processors allowing users to cut and paste informatuion from the disc directly
- to word processing.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT PS/2 or fully compatible; 512K RAM, DOS 3.1 or greater, 2 floppy
- drives or hard disk; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- YOUR MARKETING CONSULTANT: Consumer
- By Knowledge Access, Inc.
-
- A new product for (literally) mapping out your consumer and business marketing
- strategies. Database provides access to marketing data and maps for the 3,137
- counties, 316 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA) and 423 other
- geographic units in the U.S. Access to 39 variables help tailor research to
- specific needs according to demographic, economic and retail store sales. The
- variables include population/households/income/food store sales/ 5-year
- population growth/square miles.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC with 640K or more; Sony, Hitachi or Philips CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- CD/BIOTECH
- By The International Association for Scientific Computing
-
- This is the world's premier optical disk-based journal and Megazine for the
- biotechnology community. A full year subscription (comprising of at least 2
- issues on compact disk) is your resource for reasonably priced databases,
- software, and scientific communication including:
- * The latest release of GenBank (the NIH-sponsored Genetic Sequences Databank)
- * The National Biomedical Research Foundation
- * The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Data Library
- * Timely communication including original journal articles, magazine articles
- and scientific conferencing.
- * Compiled programs and source-code in a variety of areas of interest to
- scientists.
-
- Each unique issue will introduce new software, databases and articles as well as
- update previously published information. Why pour over volumes of media for the
- specific items of interest, when, in seconds, they can be targeted for your easy
- reference on a CD-ROM Disc.
-
- Hardware Specifications: Call JASON ENTERPRISE 1-800-543-1734
-
- Science Helper K-8
- By PC-SIG
-
- Science Helper K-8 is a powerful educational tool for teachers, curriculum
- committees, researchers, and publishers that contains almost 1,000 science and
- mathematics lesson plans for kindergarten through eighth grade. A specially
- developed retrieval system allows lession plans to be easily located and used.
- Science Helper K-8 is the perfect teaching aid to expand or fill in the gaps in
- any educational program.
-
- This easy to use software allows searching the lesson plan titles on any one or
- a combination of these criteria:
-
- Grade Level ...................... K-8
- Academic Subject ................. Biology, Statistics, Physical Science, etc.
- Curriculum Project ............... SAPA, COPES, SCIS, ESS, etc.
- Words or Phrases ................. Bacteria, Density, Mapping, Ratio, etc.
- Science Processes ................ Controlling Variables, Observing, etc.
- Content Themes ................... Energy, Systems, Patterns in Nature, etc.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 (model 25, 30) or fully compatible; 128K RAM; DOS 3.1 or
- higher; a CD-ROM drive.
-
- MicroTRENDS
-
- MicroTRENDS is dedicated to enhancing your course-ware with enrichment. Here is
- a sampling of the information available on CD.
-
- FastPlay from Interage Research is a world history tutorial featuring
- information from 400 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Using a simple keyboard interface, a
- student is able to step through a relational search for words and categories.
-
- NaturePlus from MicroTRENDS will be a complete series of discs which will
- contain a collection of photographic images of animal life, national parks, and
- cityscapes in full color, displayed on an RGB monitor with the aide of an AT&T
- TARGA board. In addition to the unique nature of teh images themselves, each
- disc carries with it the right to reporduce and distribute the images for
- non-profit use, at no additional charge.
-
- LinguaTech is a series of foreign language dictionaries which will include
- English-French, English-Spanish and English-German, both common words
- and speciality dictionaries for electronics, engineering and scientific terms.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT; Two Floppies or One Floppy with Hard Disk; 512K RAM; Monochrone
- or Color Monitor (unless otherwise stated); HITACHI CD-Drive.
-
- A-V ONLINE
- By SilverPlatter
-
- A-V Online, the database of the National Information Center for Education Media
- (NICEM), is the foremost audiovisual materials data-base. The A-V ONLINE
- database contains documentaries, instructional, informational and recreational
- programs.
-
- Coverage includes:
- * 16mm Motion Pictures * Audiocassettes
- * Videotapes * Overhead Transparencies
- * Filmstrips * Records
- * Slide Sets * 8mm Film Cartridges
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC or compatibles with 512K, 640K for improved perform; one 5-1/4 or 3-1/2
- floppy drive; MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 2.2 or greater; CD-ROM player.
-
- NEWS DIGEST CD-ROM
-
- Now you can have instant access to contemporary international news on a single
- disk. For 46 years, the Facts On File News Digest has provided libraries and
- educators with a precise and comprehensive overview of contemporary current
- events. With News Digest CD-ROM you can have instant access to contemporary
- international news. This disk, the first ediction of News Digest CD-ROM, will
- cover the years from 1980 through 1987. The entire 8 years of information will
- be accessible on a single CD-ROM disk. That's the equivalent of 9,000 pages of
- text and over 12 million words!
-
- News Digest CD-ROM will give you the fastest access to current events. Within
- seconds you can pinpoint any news item in the last 8 years and view the full
- text of the original News Digest story. You can then make a copy of the story
- with your printer for anyone to use. Little training is required to use News
- Digest CD-ROM. It is easy enough for novices to learn and powerful enough for
- expert searches.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM AT, XT, or fully compatible; MS-DOS (Minimum version 3.0); 640K memory;
- monochrome or color display; printer; CD-ROM drive, SCSI Macintosh Plus with
- 1MB of RAM or Macintosh SE or Macintosh II, CD-ROM drive, SCSI port.
-
- THE VISUAL DICTIONARY
-
- The Visual Dictionary combines text, images and sound in a package designed to
- teach young children to speakforeign languages. Cited as a useful alternative
- to conventional dictionaries and commended as particularly useful for children
- and students of foreign language, the Visual Dictionary combines images, text
- and sound to teach students the sounds and sights of a foreign language. Using
- over 3,000 detailed drawings to define some 25,000 terms in French, English and
- Spanish. The dictionary is both brilliantly simple in concept and effective in
- the practice of foreign language.
- As many as eight different pictures can be viewed at a time to study the
- relationship between etymology, pronunciation and signification of different
- words. Additionally the disc's retrieval software allows users to quickly
- search for and compare pictures and terms without losing their original "page"
- thanks to a special bookmarking feature. Finally the software allows customized
- use of the Visual Dictionary - helping both teachers of English as a Second
- Language and foreign Languages to design student activity plans directly with
- the dictionary.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- Not Available. Call JASON.
-
- CD-PLAY
- By Compact Disk Products, Inc.
- Play Audio CD's on CD-ROM Drives!
-
- CD-Play allows you to take your favorite music CD and play it on the same drive
- you have hooked to your IBM PC for CD-ROM. This easy to use, menu driven
- software, displays play length on the screen while sending audio output to
- headphones or stereo amplifier. And CD-Play can be used in the "background"
- while you work on your favorite word processor or spreadsheet or any other
- applications. CD-Play is compatible with all leading software.
-
- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM, PC, XT, AT and compatibles, one floppy drive 256K; CD-ROM disc drive.
-
- CD-AUDIO FILE
- By Compact Disc Products, Inc.
-
- Like CD-Play, CD-Audio File allows you to play all audio CD's on the same drive
- you have hooked to your IBM for CD-ROM. However, CD-Audio File has several
- advanced features not included on CD-Play. These features include the ability
- to recognize the CD and display the title, artist and track times on the screen.
- In addition CD-Audio File allows the user to alter and store preferred play
- sequences of the CD. Additional applications include:
- * Automatic Retrieval of Records
- * Automatic Inputing of Track/Time Infomation
- * Easy Input and Modification of Records
- * Search by any field with full or partial keys
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- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT and compatibles; one floppy drive 256K; CD-ROM disc drive.
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- The PC-SIG CD-ROM Sample Disk
- The perfect demonstration disk for any CD-ROM player.
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- This free sample disk contains programs from over 30 different diskettes
- including fully functional word processors, databases, spreadsheets, games and
- many other programs. If purchased separately these programs would cost over
- $200.! Also included is a special demonstration of Science Helper K-8 an
- educational resource for science and math teachers that contain nearly 1,000
- easily accessed lesson plans for grades K-8.
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- Hardware Specifications:
- IBM PC, XT, AT or PS/2 (model 25, 30), or compatible; 128K RAM; DOS 3.1 or
- higher; CD-ROM player.
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- HARDWARE
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- AMDEK Laserdrive-1 CDE-ROM Drive
- Offer includes Microsoft Bookshelf
-
- The Laserdrive-1 is a stand alone CD-ROM drive that is designed to fit between
- the monitor and computer system. CD-ROM discs hold an amazing 250,000 pages of
- text. The Laserdrive enables you IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible to read CD-ROM
- discs just like a floppy or hard disc.
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- A standard feature of teh Amdek Laserdrive-1 is a front-mounted stereo headphone
- jack, volume control, and software that enables you to play beautiful music from
- audio CD's. You may also connect multiple drives together providing access to
- over two gigabytes of data.
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- JASON is also offering this product bundled with Microsoft Bookshelf. Bookshelf
- is a collection of ten useful reference tools, all on a single CD-ROM. This
- complete reference library includes: The American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's
- Thesaurus II, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Bartlett's Familiar
- Quotations, and extensive collection of useful forms, letters adn outlines. . .
- and more. You have the JASON commitment to customer satisfaction with this drive
- and software.
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- HARDWARE
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- HITACHI Compact Disc Drive
- The Industry Standard
-
- Built to withstand the rigors of any environment, our CD-ROM drives are the
- ideal medium for the mass storage and distribution of data and programs. A
- single sided drive stores up to 550MB of data or about 200,000 pages of text.
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- HITACHI CD-ROM drives dependability and durability have set the standard
- for the industry. It is the disc of choice of developers and users alike.
- All discs listed in this catalog are compatible with the HITACHI drive.
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- The CD-ROM drive itself comes in several configurations to fit the computer
- you will be using to run your CD-ROM application. For instance if you use an
- IBM PC, you'll want to look at the CDR 1503 external drive or the CDR 3500 5-1/4"
- half height CD-ROM drive. If the Macintosh is your computer of choice, the
- TOSHIBA XM2100 AMAC CD-ROM drive both with a built in SCSI
- interface port, will be your best choice.
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