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From: laughner@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Tom Laughner)
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Subject: re: Subject: Re: Multimedia database required
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Date: 21 Mar 91 12:54:41 GMT
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In article <13643@darkstar.ucsc.edu> marti@saturn.ucsc.edu (Marti Atkinson) writes:
>>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
>...!ucbvax!ucscc!saturn!marti

Our campus museum has just bought some Nexts to do exactly what
you're doing.  They went with Next since the resolution is so nice,
the interface is easy to use, and you can now get color monitors.
They're still setting it up, so far they seem very happy with it.
I don't know what they're using for a database.