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From: mary@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mary Patricia Lowe)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai
Subject: Re: online dictionaries
Summary: microsoft on-line refs/contact info
Keywords: cd-rom, microsoft, on-line refs
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Date: 6 Jan 88 19:29:59 GMT
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In article <29@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM> rolandi@gollum.UUCP () writes:
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>	the Microsoft CD ROM version of the American Heritage Dictionary
>	the OED from Oxford University Press
>
>If anyone can locate these sources, I would appreciate what they find out.

In the January 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum, the section on Tools and Toys
(p. 73) contains a short blurb on the Microsoft Bookshelf. The CD-ROM
includes the following reference works:

	The World Almanac and Book of Facts,
	The American Heritage Dictionary,
	The U.S. ZIP Code Directory,
	The Chicago Manual of Style,
	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations,
	Roget's II: Electronic Thesaurus,
	Houghton Mifflin Spelling Verifier and Corrector,
	Houghton Mifflin Usage Alert,
	Business Information Sources.

For more information, contact: Microsoft Corp., Box 97017, Redmond, WA. 98073,
(206)-882-8088.

			-Mary

Mary Patricia Lowe	mary@csd4.milw.wisc.edu	      ...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!mary
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