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From: u3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia database required
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.135557.1770@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 28 Mar 91 03:55:57 GMT
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G'day,

I'm sorry, I lost track of the attribution...

> 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.

Perhaps an Amiga with the AmigaVision multimedia authoring system would  be
suitable? AmigaVision has a built in dBase III compatible tool. AmigaVision
supports CD-ROM media and has an intuitive icon based programming interface
(in case that custom application building may be important).  It is bundled
with the Amiga 3000 currently (I believe) as well as available separately.

Alternatively Superbase for the Amiga may be able to do what is needed?  It
is the same product (but an earlier version I think) as the IBM PC version.

Disclaimer:: I have not used these products except to run a demo version of
Superbase.

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.