Words and pictures that will work for a child
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Several new software packages designed to offer word processing and graphics applications to children are now available. Davidson & Associates' Kid Works is a $49.95 word processing software package that comes with sound and graphics modules. The program contains over 200 icons that represent nouns, verbs and adjectives, which children can combine to create a story line or which make individual noises on their own. The product requires an 8 MHz or faster system with 640Kbytes of memory, DOS 3.0 or later and 2Mbytes of hard disk. Picture Wizard, published by the Computer Support Corp, costs $89.95 and includes over 1,000 clip art images, which can be inserted into cards, banners or other projects. The word processing features are fairly limited. The program requires an 80286 processor with 2Mbytes of memory, a hard disk with 7Mbytes of free memory, DOS 3.0 or Windows 3.0 or later and a mouse. PC Comix is introducing comic books on disk. The first HyperComix product costs $20 plus $3 shipping and requires a DOS computer, VGA graphics, 640Kbytes of memory and 2Mbytes of hard disk.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Learning foreign languages from a teacher who never gets impatient
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HyperGlot, Knoxville, TN, offers Survival Manuals, at $59.95 each, which teach foreign languages on microcomputers. The Survival Manual for French, for an example, runs on a Macintosh microcomputer with a hard disk, Hypercard 2.0 and System 6.0.7 or later. Each Survival Guide uses about eight Mbytes to hold about 600 words pronounced by a native speaker. The software uses a topical approach so that headings such as Weather or Shopping call up words and phrases related to those topics. With the proper equipment, a user's own voice can be recorded for a comparison. A HyperGlot catalogue is available listing both Macintosh and MS-DOS products. GreekTools, $49, from Parsons Technology, Cedar Rapids, IA, teaches Greek in its New Testament form. GreekTools includes more than 1,150 entries of words or characters that appear ten times or more in the Greek New Testament. The program runs on any MS-DOS computer with 512Kbytes of RAM.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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