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