Software Reviews : Global Recall Publisher: World Game Institute, 3215 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-387-0220 Year of Publication: 1993 Version Reviewed: 2.0 Materials: 70-page user's manual; 32-page activity manual; 7 disks Price: $69.95 individual units; $210 unit-lab packs; site licenses available Machine Specificity: Macintosh only System Requirements: Macintosh Plus, Classic or better with 1MB minimum (2MB recommended); hard drive required; system 6.05 or higher; system 7 compatible (2.5MB recommended) Effectiveness: Good User Friendliness: Good Documentation: Excellent

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-143
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Software Reviews : PARADOX, Version 1.1 Reviewed by John J. Treacy, Wright State University Publisher: ANSA Software, 1301 Shoreway, Belmont, CA 94002 (telephone : 415-595-4469) Year of Publication: 1986 Materials: Two program disks, one installation disk, one sample table disk, two keyboard templates, and five manuals ( PARADOX introduction, 150 pp.; user's guide, 430 pp.; PARADOX application language user's guide: A quick guide to PARADOX for dBASE users, 22 pp.; and A quick guide to PARADOX for LOTUS users, 18 pp.). Also available upon request is an applications generator guide with three disks that requires a hard disk to run. Price: $695 list Availability: IBM PC, XT, AT, COMPAQ, COMPAQ PLUS, DESKPRO, and 100-percent-compatible personal computers. (I used NCR 41 with 640K RAM, color monitor, 808 math coprocessor, one floppy disk [360K], one 20M hard drive, and a 2M Ram disk with IBM DOS 3.1. ~ System Requirements: 512K RAM, two floppy drives or one hard disk and one floppy drive, DOS 2.0 or higher; supports IBM Pro-writer, Epson, Okida A dot-matrix, and HP Laser printers Effectiveness: Good User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Good on program usage, weak on hardware

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-271
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Hard Disk ◽  
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Personal Computers ◽  
State University ◽  
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Software Reviews : NeuralWorks Professional II/PlusPublisher: NeuralWare Inc., Penn Center West, Building Iv, Suite 227, Pittsburgh, PA 15276; 412-787-8222; FAX 412-787-8220 Year of Publication: 1991 Version Reviewed: 4.04 (MS-DOS version) Materials: 4 5.25" diskettes, 36o-page Neural Computing reference text, 352-page Reference Guide manual, 138-page Using NWorks step-by-step tutorial, 50-page Pc System Guide Price: $1,895 plus $340 annual maintenance fee except $3,995/$720 for Sun version; a limited version called NeuralWorks Explorer ($99) is available for educational uses for Macintosh or MS-DOS Machine Specificity: 80286 MS-DOS machines or higher, Macintosh, SUN workstations, IBM Rs6ooo, and others System Requirements: MS-DOS 3.2 or higher; 640K RAM plus 1MB extended memory (2MB on 80386 machines); hard drive with at least 4MB free disk space; VGA, EGA, extended CGA, or Hercules graphics adapter; math coprocessor recommended for 80286 machines, required for 80386 machines; mouse highly recommended Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Good to excellent: still an advanced package, but highly improved in user-friendliness for novice and intermediate users Documentation: Good

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-409
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Neural Computing ◽  
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