Test-drive for software: let's look at pictures. Many companies have put program demonstrations on a single disk

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Select Demos, a CD-ROM product from Computer Library, which is a division of Ziff Communications Co, includes more than a thousand demonstrations of computer programs that run under MS-DOS and Microsoft's Windows. Computer Library, which also sells a CD-ROM product called Computer Select, has gathered its graphical demos from both well-known and not-so-well-known companies, so that users can look at software packages that might not otherwise be noticed. The demos vary in their quality: the best of them provide complete programs that are disabled in some way that renders them useless for purposes other than demonstration; and the worst of them simply use animation and graphics to do sales presentations. According to a Computer Library spokesman, companies are encouraged to contribute the better variety of demos. Computer Select, Computer Library's other product, includes reviews from the past 12 months of 1,300 industry publications.

Prepackaged software, Computer storage devices, Evaluation, Software, Product/Service Evaluation, Product information, Marketing, Product introduction, Product demonstrations, New Product, Software Selection, Product selection, New Technique, Software packages, Ziff Communications Co. Computer Library Div., Select Demos (Educational software)

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Optical allusions

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Texas is considering computer software, videodisks and CD-ROM disks as alternatives to textbooks in some courses. It means that in Texas electronic teaching materials are accepted as instructional aids; such materials are no longer mere curiosities. According to a spokesperson for the Texas Education Agency, the door is now open for new ways of learning for children and new ways of teaching for teachers. One new product is 'Windows on Science' from Optical Data Corp, which costs $495 per grade level for grades 1 through 3, and $595 per grade level for grades 4 through 6. 'Windows on Science' consists of a 12-inch videodisc plus lesson plans and a manual. Information is stored as text (English or Spanish), animated sequences, photographs, full-motion video and stereo sound. Thus, a section covering tornados actually can convey the sight and the sounds of such a storm, enhancing the learning process.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, Computers, Digital computers, Education, Social policy, Teaching, Technology application, Computer-assisted instruction, Computer assisted instruction, Texas, Optical disks (Storage media), Videodisks, Optical disk drives, Videodisk players, Optical disks, Videodisc Systems, Videodiscs, Optical Disk Drive, Texas Education Agency, Texas. Education Agency

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