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From: marti@saturn.ucsc.edu (Marti Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: Multimedia database required
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:05:56 GMT
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>A friend of mine in the Ancient History department has asked for my 
advice 
>regarding a computer system for the Teaching Collection.

>The curator of the Ancient History Teaching Collection at Macquarie 
wishes to
>catalogue all the artefacts and papyri into an on-line research database. 
To
>this end, he needs information about software and the hardware platforms 
under
>them.

I would recommend a MacII with a color scanner (try looking at LaCie it 
has been
coming bundled with some nice image enhancement and compression software).
You might also consider Hypercard as the front end to your images, altho 
there
are several visual databases available... sorry I can't recommend exact 
names.

Macs are good for people who have not had alot of previous experience with
computers and are especially good for visually oriented professionals.


Marti Atkinson
University of Calif. at Santa Cruz  
marti@saturn.ucsc.edu
marti@uccrls.BITNET
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