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Article #109Re: Having trouble finding that album? MUSE may be the answer
From: Ken Alexander
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:51
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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Newsgroups: mi.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!wsu-cs!destroyer!caen!umeecs!quip.eecs.umich.edu!kalex From: kalex@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ken Alexander) Subject: Re: Having trouble finding that album? MUSE may be the answer Message-ID: <1992Aug29.065113.16465@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor References: <l9srjtINN5ms@cato.aa.ox.com> Distribution: mi Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:51:13 GMT Lines: 17