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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 Hardware Specifications: IBM PC, XT, AT and compatibles; one floppy drive 256K; CD-ROM disc drive. The PC-SIG CD-ROM Sample Disk The perfect demonstration disk for any CD-ROM player. 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. Hardware Specifications: IBM PC, XT, AT or PS/2 (model 25, 30), or compatible; 128K RAM; DOS 3.1 or higher; CD-ROM player. HARDWARE 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. 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. 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. HARDWARE 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. 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. 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.