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Re: What's available on CDROM?

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From: Brian Bechtel
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 14:36
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Laserscan Systems, Inc.  (305) 739-7715

RealScan Real Estate Information System.  RealScan provides information
on all properties in selected Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas
(SMSAs).  Data includes ownership, property type, lot size, sale
history, and mortgages, as well as detailed information on buildings
(number of bedrooms and bathrooms, dimensions, and amenities).
Currently available for Dade and Broward counties in Florida, RealScan
will be offered to 25 other major metropolitan areas by 1990.

Suggested Retail Price: $995.00 for software; updates are $275 monthly
Currently Available Target Markets:  Real estate brokers  (commercial
and high-end property), banks, government agencies, lending services
(mortgage  companies, banks, and so on) and lawyers
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Letraset 1-800-343-TYPE

Letraset Studio Line CD.  Letrasets Studio Line of graphic design
software for the Macintosh is a complete set of electronic tools for
the design, creation, and production of print media or video
materials.  DesignStudio delivers a professional page layout program;
ColorStudio provides true-color image manipulation or creation with
access to high-end output devices; LetraStudio delivers high quality
display typography and special effects with       access to all the
popular Macintosh typefaces; ImageStudio supports full grayscale image
manipulation or creation; and FontStudio allows the creation of that
special logotype from an existing font, or the invention of an entirely
new one.     Using CD technology, the user has the con-  venience of
the entire StudioLine at his fingertips.  In addition with audio-visual
animation, Letraset    is able to deliver a compendium of information
about adjacent services and products, which is    vital to anyone
building an electronic graphic arts studio.  There is also a friendly
Hypercard stack to

Suggested Retail Price: TBA Available Second Quarter 1990 Target
Markets:  Graphic arts professionals, including creative, designers,
and production artists.
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MacroMind, Inc.  (415) 442-0200

MacroMind CD-ROM.  A collection of clip animations, clip art, clip
sounds, charts and black & white movies.  It is designed for
professionals and presenters who can use a database of animation and
art for their own presentations. The disc can be viewed without the use
of MacroMind Director.

Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Business,education, artists, animators
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Media Clip-Art, Inc.  (609) 795-5993

CD-650.  This disc contains 650 megabytes of color and  black-and-white
images that can be altered, sized, scaled, sheared, and rotated using
Adobe Illustrator 88 or Aldus Freehand. The images are from a wide
variety of categories such as: food and beverage, occupations, sports,
technology, industry/trade, and animals.

Suggested Retail Price: $495.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Business, education, desktop publishing, travel, and entertainment
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Microsoft 1-800-227-6444 or (206) 882-8080

The Microsoft Office.  A collection of four popular business
applications on CD-ROM: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
PowerPoint, and Microsoft Mail.  Included on the disc is the entire
documentation, HyperCard navigational tools, templates, clip art and a
number of third-party applications that enhance the value of The
Microsoft Office.

Suggested Retail Price: $949.00 Currently Available Target Market:
Business
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Multi-Ad Services, Inc.  (309) 692-1530

ProArt Trilogy 1 CD-ROM.  A CD-ROM from the ProArt Professional Art
Library, this disc contains three collections of PostScript images for
desktop publishing and presentation systems. The Business, Holidays,
and Sports collections each contain more than 100 files, for a total of
more than 300 high-quality illustrations.  Suggested Retail Price:
$375.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing and
presentations, and graphic arts

Ad-Builder Electronic.  This product is designed for the advertising
professional who needs a continuous supply of high-quality desktop
graphic images and complete advertising ideas. Subscribers receive a
CD-ROM every other month with seasonal ideas, headings, borders,
illustrations, and so on.

Suggested retail Price: $145.00 per month Currently Available Target
Markets: Desktop publishing,             advertising, and presentation

Multi-Ad Creator.  The first Macintosh application designed and created
to take advantage of CD-ROM, this product combines the power and text
handling capabilities of page layout software, with the graphics
handling of object-oriented programs. This unique combination, with the
addition of the programs own interactive abilities, has created a new
program category for the layout of single-page documents and display
advertisements.

Suggested Retail Price: $995.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Desktop publishing,             advertising, and presentations

Inhouse PAL Potpourri.  Contains 300 illustrations covering a variety
of subjects including: animals, careers, education, food, sports,
holidays, leisure, religion, hearts, flowers, and vacation.  PAL can be
imported into any program that accepts EPS art.

Suggested Retail Price: $189.95 Currently Available Target Markets:
Desktop publishing
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OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.  (614) 764-6474

OCLC has long been a leader in publishing CD-ROMs for use in the
library. Now, with the introduction of the Macintosh version of the
access software, its line of discs becomes available to Macintosh
computer users. Includes resources for science and industry,
agriculture, and education (including the ERIC database).

Suggested Retail Price: Prices for individual   discs range from
$300.00 to $2,195.00 Available Winter 1990 Target Markets:  Libraries
and research facilities
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Optical Media International (408) 395-4332

Universe of Sounds.  The Universe of Sounds disc contains thousands
of sound samples using DigiDesigns Sound Designer sound file format.
Universe of Sounds Volume I features percussion; Volume II features
musical instruments, synthesizers, and percussion samples.

Suggested Retail Price:  $399.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Professional music studios     and audio postproduction for film and
video

Desktop Sounds Volume 1.  Volume 1 of Desktop Sounds is a CD-ROM
containing 400 digitally recorded, professional-quality sound effects,
music effects, and percussion samples in the Apple Sound Resource
format.  The disc contains a HyperCard user interface for finding,
editing, auditioning, and moving sounds into various Macintosh
applications.

Suggested Reatil Price: $120.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Business, desktop presentations, and education
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Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc.  (313) 996-1580

Pro-Cite for the Macintosh.  Pro-Cite, a Macintosh bibliographic
information management application, is now compatible with the Aries
Systems Knowledge Finder retrieval system, allowing effortless
importation of data from the MEDLINE medical databases.

Suggested Retail Price:  $395.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Library sciences and academic research, professors, and higher
education

Biblio-Link interface for Pro-Cite Records downloaded from the Aries
Systems Knowldge Finder retrieval system can be put directly into a
Pro-Cite database with this Pro-Cite companion product.  Suggested
Retail Price:  $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Library
sciences and academic research, professors, and higher education
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Quantum Access, Inc.  (713) 622-3211

ClubMac.  This collection of public-domain software contains more than
400 megabytes of applications, files, utilities, and HyperCard stacks,
as well as other useful information.  Includes a resource for bulletin
board services and Apple User Groups, and a Classified Ads section.

Suggested Retail Price: Published quarterly at $350.00 per year;
$199.00 per single copy Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer
and technical
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Semaphore Corporation 408-688-9200

A Quarter Million Mac Users.  This disk contains over 250,000 names and
addresses of Macintosh users in the United States.  Over 42,000 of the
records include phone numbers.  The complete Mac-style interface makes
full use of multiple windows, instant lookups, and scrolling through
the database.  Users can be located by ZIP code and address, by phone
number, by personal name, or by company name.  Any selection of records
can be exported to custom files.

Suggested Retail Price:  $4900.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Vendors of Macintosh products and services

Z-5.  This disc contains the U.S. Postal Service national database of
addresses and five-digit ZIP codes.  Z-5 lists the correct name for all
cities and post offices, and the correct street names and house number
ranges for all cities with multiple ZIP codes for streets.  Z-5 is
useful for ZIP lookup and verification, comparing or merging mailing
lists, and address correction.  Z-5 can be shared by any number of
users over a network.  Suggested Retail Price:  $299.00 Currently
Available Target Markets:  Business Irv Brechners Industry Lists.  This
disc contains over 27,000 names and addresses organized as ten
different mailing lists:  computer stores, software developers, value
added resellers, consultants, laser printer users, hardware developers,
distributors, mail order dealers, computer journalists, and CAD/CAM
specialists.  The complete Mac-style interface makes full use of
multiple windows, instant lookups, and scrolling through the database.
Names and addresses can be located by ZIP code and address or by
company name.  Any selection of records can be exported for custom
mailings.

Suggested Retail Price:  $1900.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Business
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Software Mart, Inc.  (512) 346-7887

CD-ROM Developers Lab.  The CD-ROM Developers Lab is a comprehensive,
multimedia production reference for creating CD-ROM applications.
Unlike expensive seminars, this innovative resource assembles on your
desktop a fully searchable, full-text database of proven how-to
information on design, programming, project management, data
preparation, assembly, and the mastering process.

Suggested Retail Price: $795.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Anybody thinking of developing a CD-ROM.

Media-Mixer.  Contains a set of subroutine libraries that allows
developers to prototype and create full-text or multimedia CD-ROM
databases and retrieval software.  Tools are written in Turbo Pascal
and Microsoft C.  Some data preparation tools are UNIX-based.  Licenses
are available for source code usage.  Suggested Retail Price: Usage
licenses start at $1750.00.  Source code licenses start at $3500.00.
Currently Available Target Markets: Anybody thinking of developing a
CD-ROM.
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SuperMac Technology (408) 245-2202

PixelPaint Art CD-ROM.  The disc contains PixelPaint Professional, the
first true-color paint program for the Macintosh.  Included on the
CD-ROM are over 100 8-bit and 32-bit color images as well as a
SuperCard tutorial and documentation.  A slideshow program allows
theusertoautomaticallyviewallthefilesontheCD ROM.

Suggested Retail Price:  $799.00 Available Summer 1990 Target Markets:
Graphic designers, industrial designers, illustrators, archictects,
fashion designers, scientific illustrators, desktop publishers
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The Voyager Company (213) 451-1383

Ludwig Van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 Voyager CD Companion Series, By
Robert Winter.  Noted music historian, pianist and UCLA professor
Robert Winter explores Beethovens Ninth Symphony, painting a vivid
picture of the com-posersworld,explainingtheinnerworkingsofthe music in
a lively and entertaining fashion, and ap-plying these explanations to
a close reading of the work. The package contains a five-part HyperCard
program plus a commercially available compact disc recording of
Beethovens Ninth Symphony. First in a new series that combines the
interactivity of HyperCard with a CD audio disc to provide insight into
a specific piece of music, using text, graphics and audio examples
taken from the CD.

Suggested Retail Price: $99.95 Currently Available Target Market: Home,
school,higher education, music enthusiasts

The Voyager AudioStack.  Create your own Beethoven-like stack using
this toolkit for controlling commercial off-the-shelf CDs from
HyperCard.  This toolkit lets you play and precisely control any
commercially available audio CD from your Macintosh.  Select your
favorite artist or recording, then use the toolkit with Hypercard to
create your own multimedia work.  Included in this package is a CD of
popular show tunes to get you started.

Suggested Retail Price:  $99.95 Currently Available Target Markets:
All Macintosh users, developers and music lovers
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UniDisc (415) 962-0577

Guinness Disc of Records 1990.  The Guinness Disc of Records 1990 is a
multimedia CD-ROM product based on the world's best-selling copyrighted
book, the Guinness Book of Records.  Published by Pergamon Compact
Solution of London, England, the Guinness Disc of Records 1990 brings
world records to life by using pictures, sound, and animation.
Included on the disc are:  5000 comprehensive world records, all
searchable; 300 color photographs; 30 minutes of sound; 25 animations.
Most of the color photographs have never been seen in the U.S.  The
audio includes such things as the worlds fastest backward talker,
talking to you right through your Macintosh.

Suggested Retail Price:  $125.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Education and consumer
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Warner New Media (818) 955-9999

Audio Notes #1:  The Magic Flute.  The first in a Music Discovery
series, Mozarts The Magic Flute, fills three CD-ROM discs with both
HyperCard stacks and CD audio content.  Roger Englander, the television
producer of Bernsteins Young Peoples Concerts, provides music
commentary.  Includes the original German libretto and the English
translation, as well as newly recorded sidebars about the music, the
symbolism and opera forms.  Linear play time exceeds 210 minutes.

Suggested Retail Price (3 CD set):  $66.00 Currently Available Target
Markets:  Home and education

Audio Notes #2:  Beethovens String Quartet No. 14.  Often referred to
as the greatest work of chamber music ever composed, this quartet
receives the full Audio Notes series treatmenta virtual exploratorium
of Beethovens work, including an audio-visual, interactive activities
section on the basics of music.

Suggested Retail Price: $66.00 Available Summer 1990 Target Markets:
Home and education
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Wayzata Technology Inc.  1-800-735-7321 or (612) 460-8438

The World Factbook 1989.  Called the World Almanac of the Federal
Government, the CIA World Factbook is produced annually by Directorate
of the Central Intelligence Agency.  It includes extensive examinations
of territories and countries world-wide.  Socio-economic,
Geo-political, demographic and other country specific data is
included.  The Bureau of the Census, Defense Intelligence Agency,
Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Department of the
Interior, and the United States Coast Guard have also contributed data
to the Factbook.  Information in the Factbook for the U.S. and U.S.
dependencies was compiled from material in the public domain and does
not represent Intelligence Community estimates.

Suggested Retail Price: $99.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Consumer

U.S. Civics/U.S. Citizenship.  The U.S. Civics Disc is designed
especially for persons seeking U.S. citizenship, researching the
origins of the U.S., and teaching American history.  The database was
acquired from the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and
Naturalization Service series known as the Federal Citizenship
Instructors, Citizenship Education and Naturalization Information,
United States History 1600-1987 Level I and II, U.S. Government
Structure Level I and II.

Suggested Retail Price: $99.00 Currently Available Target markets:
Education and persons seeking U.S. citizenship

Seals in the U.S. Federal Government.  The Seals CD-ROM contains 588
identifying images of the U.S. Federal Government at 300 dots-per-inch
in the TIFF format.  A HyperCard stack provides user friendly and quick
access to each image.  The CD-ROM also ships with TIFF image viewing
software, which allows you to view each image directly.  All seals and
devices contained on the Seals CD-ROM represent art on file at the
Government Printing Office.  The seals and devices have been approved
by the departments and agencies they represent.  They are subject to
change at any time.

Suggested Retail Price: $69.95 Currently Available Target Markets:
Consumer

QuickArt.  Contains over 2200 crisp images at 300 dots-per-inch in the
TIFF format.  A HyperCard stack provides user friendly and quick access
to each image.  The CD-ROM also ships with TIFF software which allows
you to view each image directly.  QuickArt provides top quality,
reproduction clarity images which are ideal for importing into your
favorite page layout or desktop publishing program.

Suggested Retail Price: $249.95 Currently Available Target Markets:
Desktop publishing and consumer
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Xiphias (213) 821-2790

Time Table of Science & Innovation.  An interactive history of
scientific development featuring stories from more than 6,000 important
events taken from more than 50 reference works.  Bibliographic
citations and keyword searches are provided.  This product uses Xearch,
the companys proprietary HyperCard retrieval engine.

Suggested Retail Price:  $185.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Marketed as an encyclopedia for all age groups and as an educational
tool for K-12 students, high school students and undergraduates

The National Directory.  A compendium of the key listings for North
Americas businesses, industries, and government agencies. This disc
boasts over 120,000 up-to-date   listings, plus more than 80,000 fax
numbers. The accompanying software can rapidly find any listing, and
then auto dial via modem, auto fax via      fax modem, and print
mailing labels with Apple LaserWriter or ImageWriter products.

Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets:
Telemarketers, direct mail, research and general business


 Copyright 1990 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, HyperCard,
 ImageWriter, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of
 Apple Computer, Inc. AppleCD SC is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
 PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated.
 Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes only and
 constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple assumes
 no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of
 these products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any,
 take place directly between the vendors and the prospective users.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
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