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- From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk
- Subject: Acorn news release: Pocket Books in use at BETT
- Date: 20 Jan 93 08:45:56 GMT
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- Acorn Pocket Books for BETT Info Link
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- Embargo Release Date 20th January 1993
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- Acorn Computers' Pocket Books are at the heart of a scheme to provide
- visitors to the BETT 93 exhibition with information on exhibitors and their
- products.
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- Under the scheme a group of work experience students from the London Borough
- of Newham will each carry Pocket Books loaded with data about every
- exhibitor on every stand.
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- In addition, those companies that are featuring Acorn products will have
- full details of those products together with the names of the people manning
- the stands downloaded into the Pocket Books.
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- Acorn's Dick Wallin described the likely scenario: "The idea is that each of
- the students - who will be highly visible at the show - will act as a
- walking encyclopaedia for the benefit of the show visitors. Their Pocket
- Books will be loaded with comprehensive information about the show so that
- if, for example, a visitor wants to know which stands feature networking
- software, the student can consult his database and immediately come up with
- a list of all the stands of interest. We have some 75 categories of
- software listings, so I don't envisage any problems in finding something to
- cater for everyone's interests.
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- "If the visitor wants basic information about, say, particular software
- packages, then again the student can look up his database and give an answer
- there and then. The information will actually have been downloaded from the
- latest Education Software catalogue. However, for those wanting detailed
- information, the student will then have the option of either taking the
- visitor to the relevant stand and making the necessary introductions, or
- taking him to the Acorn information stand where he can pick up a hard copy
- of the Educational catalogue, or indeed order a CD ROM version of that same
- catalogue. "
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- Dick Wallin described Acorn's Pocket Book as an ideal resource for such a
- venture. "The cards data base is extremely quick and easy to use as each
- field can be individually labelled and fast searches can be made on any key
- word. But in addition there is a spread sheet on which the students will be
- able to look up educational prices of Acorn equipment, and a text processor
- on which the students can take notes of particular questions from visitors
- in order to pass information on to Acorn's Customer Services department
- after the show. " All the information will have been downloaded from an
- Acorn Archimedes computer to the Pocket Books via special "A-link"
- communications software. The details of stand personnel will also be
- updated daily.
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- The Acorn Pocket Book also features a spell checker, an alarm clock and a
- calculator and all the software is multitasking.
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- The Education retail price of the Pocket Book is #199 or #1990 for a pack of
- eleven, which includes a free A-link. The A-link comms hardware can also be
- bought separately for #42.71.
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- ENDS
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- Further Information from Dick Wallin, Acorn Computers, Tel 0223 254254
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