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Re: Having trouble finding that album? MUSE may be the answer

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From: Ken Alexander
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:51
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In article <l9srjtINN5ms@cato.aa.ox.com> jih@cato.aa.ox.com (John I. Hritz) writes:
>	Our local truly amazing record store , Tower Records, has put in a
>touch screen based search system for records, CDs and tapes.  The system
>will search by  album titles, song titles, artist names as well as build
>discographies.  Entries for newer releases have a picture of the album cover
>to make finding it in the racks even easier.  The MUSE system even includes
>a printer to spit out hard copy of your finds. Using the machine is no charge.

Just so that people don't get TOO excited: this system only lists albums
that are currently part of _regular_Tower_USA_warehouse_stock_.
It doesn't even list most of the imports that are in that Tower store.
It only contains a small fraction of what is in print, even in the US. 
The hardcopy "in-print" books and CD catalogs are infinitely more complete.
All Muse really tells you is which albums *Tower* is willing and able
to special-order, and that's something that you could always find out by
looking at their printed list at the counter.  
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From: kalex@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ken Alexander)
Subject: Re: Having trouble finding that album? MUSE may be the answer
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