The Acorn Archimedes edition of the Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, the 
first British electronic encyclopedia, was released on 23rd May 1993. 
Published by ATTICA Cybernetics Limited, it incorporates a large quantity 
of colour photographs, sound clips and maps. This will be the first 
multimedia encyclopedia available to Acorn computer users, which account 
for approximately half of UK schools. 

The Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, RISC OS version developed in 
conjunction with PEP Associates, includes over 1500 photographs and 
illustrations, maps, textual data and over 250 sound clips. This version 
provides an absorbing and stimulating environment for library services in 
business, government and education. 

This CD-ROM title provides over 25,000 articles, thousands of 
cross-references and hundreds of tables all classified under six headings: 
Aspects of Society, History, The Arts, Places, Life Sciences and Science 
and Technology. Upgrades from the text only version of this electronic 
encyclopedia are available at a special price exclusively from Cumana 
Limited. 

The Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia comes with powerful retrieval 
software supporting searches by individual and combinations of words, and 
thousands of hypertext cross-references allowing you to browse freely 
through the data. Text and pictures may be incorporated into school 
projects by using standard word processing programmes. 

The encyclopedia is published by ATTICA Cybernetics Limited, Unit 2, Kings 
Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford, OX2 0DP, United Kingdom. Tel: 0865 
791346. Fax: 0865 794561. 

Price GBP149. Existing users of text only versions may upgrade to the 
multimedia version for GBP75 by contacting Cumana Ltd on their CD-ROM 
Helpline, telephone 0483 503121. 

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