kotlas@ecsvax.UUCP (Carolyn Kotlas) (08/11/87)
I've got a journalism professor looking for "Bartlett's Famous Quotations" on disk to be used with a PC/MS-DOS system. This seems like a natural progression from currently-available dictionaries and thesauri, but I can't find an ad or listing of such a thing in any of my sources. Does anyone know of a source for this on disk (or perhaps CDROM)?? Thanks in advance. Carolyn Kotlas (kotlas@ecsvax) -- Carolyn Kotlas (kotlas@ecsvax) UNC-Educational Computing Service P. O. Box 12035 2 Davis Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 State Courier #315 919/549-0671
kotlas@ecsvax.UUCP (Carolyn Kotlas) (09/03/87)
> I've got a journalism professor looking for "Bartlett's Famous Quotations" > on disk to be used with a PC/MS-DOS system. This seems like a natural > progression from currently-available dictionaries and thesauri, but I can't > find an ad or listing of such a thing in any of my sources. Does anyone > know of a source for this on disk (or perhaps CDROM)?? Thanks in advance. Thanks very much to the professor at Oklahoma State who asked the optical disk company to give me a call; I'm sorry I don't have the names to give these very helpful people proper credit. The source of a machine-readable Bartlett's Famous Quotations turns out to be Microsoft. It is included in a collection on reference tools on CD ROM called the Microsoft Bookshelf. Also on the CD are Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, style manual; in all, ten standard reference tools. Retail cost of the CD is $295, but, as with MS's software and hardware, educational discounts are available. Our university qualifies for 60% discount so it will cost us $118. I understand that this is MS's first venture into CD publishing which may account for the fact that I couldn't find this title listed in the sources I consulted. There is also, I understand, a package deal offered with the CD and a CD player from Microsoft. The number to call for dealer information is 1-800-227-4679. This CD sounds really useful to both academic and office users; I hope Microsoft will make its existence more widely known. -- Carolyn Kotlas (kotlas@ecsvax) UNC-Educational Computing Service P. O. Box 12035 2 Davis Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 State Courier #315 919/549-0671