Bringing the power of a database home

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Personal R:Base, priced at $299 but available at an introductory price of $99.95, from Microrim (Redmond, WA), is a powerful relational data base management system (DBMS), for individuals or for use in small offices. Personal R:Base is actually a single-user version of R:Base 3.1, which is designed for corporate use. Personal R:Base, which works either from a keyboard or with a mouse, has five built-in applications: a mailing list, an appointments calendar, a checkbook manager, a home inventory, and a recipe and shopping list program. Personal R:Base is reasonably easy to use, though mastering any database program can seem difficult. Personal R:Base comes with an 11-lesson tutorial and a detailed manual. Personal R:Base runs on an IBM or compatible computer with 512 Kbytes of memory. Address Book Plus, $99.95, from Power Up Software Corp, San Mateo, CA, is mentioned as a good flat-field, single-purpose database program.

Database management systems, DBMS software, DBMS, evaluation, Relational Data Base Management Systems, Microrim Inc., Personal R:BASE (Data base management system)

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When children play

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Edmark Corp's $39.95 Kid Desk screen generator creates a desktop for children to prevent them from accessing adults' data, and Sierra On-Line Inc's $49.95 Alphabet Blocks educational software plays letter games and music. Kid Desk provides a customizable desk with a clock, calculator, calendar, telephone, lamp, name plate and picture frame. Adults can have Kid Desk come up automatically with chosen programs represented on the children's desk. Kid Desk comes in Macintosh and DOS versions. Alphabet Blocks can be put on the Kid Desk desktop. The educational program lets children choose a coach with which to play a game, with different coaches providing different games. One coach, for example, provides letter-sound games, while another provides letter-name games. Coaches provide encouragement and, with correct answers, visual rewards. Alphabet Blocks comes in Macintosh and Microsoft Windows versions.

Miscellaneous publishing, Product/Service Evaluation, Educational software, Alphabets, Utility programs, Utilities (Software), Desktop utilities, Desktop accessory software, Desktop Utility, Screen Generators/Formatters, Sierra On-Line Inc., SIER, Desktop organizers, Edmark Corp., KidDesk (Operating system enhancement), Alphabet Blocks (Children's educational software)

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