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Software Reviews : The Presidents: It All Started With GeorgePublisher: National Geographic Society, Educational Media Division, Washington, DC 20036; 800-342-4460 Year of Publication: 1992 Version Reviewed: 1.0 Materials: CD-ROM disk, instruction manual Price: $149.95 ($99 for educational institutions) Machine Specificity: IBM-compatible computers System Requirements: Hard disk, 640K RAM, CD-ROM drive, VGA monitor, mouse, audio adapter card, headphone or speakers; Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions 2.1 or later and MS-DOS 3.3 or later Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Excellent
This is the first multimedia microcomputer product to provide encyclopedic information on all 40 American presidents. The CD-ROM disk contains more than 1,200 photographs, 33 video clips, famous presidential speeches, narrated photo essays on the presidency and the political process, a multimedia timeline from 1789 to 1991, a political party index, election facts and figures, essays, and maps.
Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 10, No. 3,
394-395 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/089443939201000313

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Software Reviews : Student Systat and Data Analysis with Student Systat, DOS Edition Publisher: Course Technologies, One Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142; 800-648-7450 Year of Publication: 1994 Version Reviewed: DOS version 1.0 (Windows and Mac versions, not reviewed here, are also available) Materials: 3.5" Student Systat disk; Data Analysis with Student Systat (479-page hard-copy statistics text/workbook) Price: $49.95 suggested retail (individual copies of the disk/book package); $37.50 to bookstores; book only, $22.50 net, $30 list; Stu dent Systat software: $250 (single-unit special pricing for computer lab stand-alone multiple installations); $500 (network license) Machine Specificity: MS-DOS; Macintosh and Windows versions (not reviewed here) are available System Requirements: DOS 3.0 or higher, 640K RAM, 6MB of free hard disk space. Extended memory is not supported. A math coprocessor is recommended but not required. (Windows version requires 2MB RAM; a mouse is recommended.) Effectiveness: Excellent User Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Excellent
Social Science Computer Review,
October 1, 1994;
12(3):
455 - 459.
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