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Application                                                            Page
CDBIBLE -- CD Bible Library ............................................. 1
CDPLAY -- CD Audio Player ............................................... 1
CDPLAYER -- CD Audio Player ............................................. 2
CONET -- Disability Product Catalog ..................................... 2
DOCTOR -- Family Doctor ................................................. 2
ENCY -- Grolier Encyclopedia ............................................ 2
FPN -- Front Page News .................................................. 3
LANGS -- Languages of the World. ........................................ 3
LOF -- Library of the Future version 1 .................................. 4
LOF -- Library of the Future version 2 .................................. 5
MAGRACK -- Magazine Rack ................................................ 7
MSL -- Microsoft Library ................................................ 7
NATIONS -- Countries of the World on CD-ROM ............................. 8
PHONE -- PhoneDisc USA .................................................. 8
PHONE -- American Business Phone Book ................................... 9
RL -- Reference Library ................................................. 9
SOURCE -- SOURCE DISK on CD-ROMS from Helgerson associates ............. 11
TIME90 -- Time Magazine Almanac 1990 ................................... 11
TIME92 -- Time Magazine Almanac 1992 ................................... 11
USH -- U.S. History on CD-ROM .......................................... 12







                        CDBIBLE -- CD Bible Library

     In many selections, you are presented with a list of choices on the
left of the screen, and an empty box appears on the right. Move the cursor
up and down with the up and down arrow keys and select items. Each time you
select items, they show up on the right box. When you have finished
selecting, press the F10 key. If you want to delete an item, press F8 to
switch to the right box. To remove an item, press the F7 key.
     The F1 key always gives very useful context-sensitive help. You can
search with very elaborate search criteria (use the help for details). If
you have pulled up 10 selection, use F4 to go to the next one, and F3 to go
back to the previous one.
     If you pick "citation" then it is possible to search on the section of
the bible (i.e. search for "Genesis" to choose the 1500 verses in the first
book in the bible). If you choose more than one bible version, you get a
screen showing the same verse in the different bible versions.
     To leave the program, press Esc until you have backed all the way out.


                         CDPLAY -- CD Audio Player

     Simulated Audio CD Player. This program requires two parameters. The
first parameter is the drive designation (usually S). The second parameter
is C for color monitor, M for monochrome monitor. For example, you can type
CDPLAY S M <Enter> for drive S and monochrome monitor. The program beeps.
Press <Enter> again to confirm your choice. It beeps again. This is normal.
After about 30 seconds, the program is ready to run.
     The program uses the four arrow keys and the Enter key to manipulate a
matrix that looks like this:

1       2   3        4   5         up    play    left  right
6       7   8        9   10        --    shift   left  right
11      12  13       14  15        --    pause   --    eject
16      17  18       19  20        down  stop    --    power
single  --  program  --  continue  --    repeat  --    background music

     The numbers 1 through 20 refer to track numbers. If there are only 14
tracks, you only get numbers 1-14, and the squares labeled 15-20 on this
chart would be blank.
     The up and down keys only work if there are more than 20 tracks. If
you press the down key, everything shifts down by 5 so the top row goes
from 6-10, the next row goes from 11-15, etc. The up key reverses the
action of the down key.
     When you start, the "cursor" is on the play button. Press return to
start the CD to play. Press left arrow 5 times to be at "2". Press <Enter>
to start playing track 2. To leave the program, press down arrow a lot of
times, and then press right arrow a lot of times. This takes you to the
bottom right corner. Now press up arrow once to get to "power". Now press
return. You are back to the DOS prompt.




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                        CDPLAYER -- CD Audio Player

     Another simulated Audio CD Player. This one has prettier graphics, but
it has bigger bugs. The CDPLAY program has fewer bugs, but has a very
confusing graphics screen. As a sighted person, I cannot get this program
to operate (I challenge anyone to explain how to switch CD disks using this
program). If you insist on turning your computer system into a CD player,
use the CDPLAY program instead. Better yet, just use CD-ROMs in your CD-ROM
drive. If you want to hear a CD Audio disk, buy a CD Audio player.


                    CONET -- Disability Product Catalog

     This disk is quite straight forward. Follow the installation
instructions on the CD-ROM. You should have no trouble installing or using
this disk. It was designed to be easily used by blind persons.


                          DOCTOR -- Family Doctor

     Once started, press enter to get past the title screen. In the main
menu, there 5 options listed horizontally: search, browse, contents,
database, and change/exit. Use left and right arrow keys to change, enter
to select. Once you have picked a main choice, go through the sub-menu with
the up and down arrow keys. Press enter to select.
     Use F1 to learn how to write search conditions.
     Back out with the Escape key. At the last point, you are asked "do you
want to leave". Enter "N" or "Y".


                        ENCY -- Grolier Encyclopedia

     For most of this application, normal text is yellow on red, the cursor
is yellow on grey.

Alt-H -- help (help shows up in small window in center of screen)
Alt-P -- prints your choice of page, paragraph, all, or marked area of
  current window. The default is "current paragraph"; to print "all" or
  entire article, type in: Alt-P down enter up <Enter>
Alt-K -- saves into textfile your choice of page, paragraph, all, or marked
  area of current window. The default is "current paragraph"; to save "all"
  or entire article, type in: Alt-K down enter up enter
Alt-N -- load notepad
Alt-A -- save notepad
Alt-M -- begin marking a block of text, press enter end the block; repeat
  Alt-M to cancel of marking
Alt-X -- cancel the user input line in current Word Search window
Alt-C -- appends marked text to the current notepad
Alt-L -- advance to the next link (next word in all caps; these are also
  articles in the encyclopedia
Enter -- Go to linked article (only works if current word is in upper case)
Tab --- moves cursor to next search word

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shift-Tab -- move cursor back to the previous search word
Alt-I -- picture index
Alt-B -- appends a reference to a specific paragraph in an article to the
  notepad. Later press return on the bookmark to recall the article
Alt-U -- look up words -- opens the word index window. This can be used
  when trying to figure out which words to search for
Alt-S -- new search; return to the word search window and clears all search
  words
Alt-A -- zoom window; toggles between default window size and a full sized
  window. Pressing Alt-Z usually makes it easier to read an article
Alt-D toggles between default window size and a tiny size.
Esc -- close the current window

     To leave the encyclopedia, type: Alt-Q <wait 2 seconds> the type Alt-Q
<Enter>.


                           FPN -- Front Page News

     The front Page News CD-ROM is not part of the DAK package, but it is
part of my personal collection. The search software is an updated version
of the Magazine Rack software. The disk contains 206,000 news stories from
4/90-3/91. When you get into the system, just press space bar to start a
search. To search for article that mentions both Qualye and Mars, just type
Quayle&Mars <enter>
     You can switch between one article and a list of them with a control-
T. The tab key means "go to the next menu item", shift tab means "go to the
previous menu item", and enter selects a menu item.
     During the search, the central area of the screen is divided into
three parts: the upper left is called "words" or "group", (the list of
possible search words the upper right is called "results" (which contains a
cryptic count of the number of articles that matches the characters you
have typed so far). The bottom area is called "Query" and it contains the
sequence you have typed so far.
     To do a search, use control-A for And; control-O for Or; control-N for
Not; and control-E for Exclusive Or.
     To save an article to disk, type control-Print Screen.
     To leave the program, press Escape a few times.


                      LANGS -- Languages of the World.

     Most text is white on blue, the cursor is blue on white
     The hot key for this application is shift-Alt. This cannot be changed.
     The first time you press this, the program wants you to configure it.
     The user interface is bizarre, so pay attention.
     Line one says "Multilingual dictionary"; line two shows what you have
selected so far. During the set up, right arrow advances to the next
question, left arrow takes you to the previous question, and up and down
select your choice for the current question. Do not press enter during this
set up procedure.
     Here are the set up screens:

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1) Type of use:  - 1- look up dictionary, -2- display translation -3-
  display related words
2) Source language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch,
  Japanese Chinese, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Swedish
3) Target language: same choices as above
4) select dictionary: select carefully! Your choice of dictionary should
  include the languages you are translating
5) range of search: -1- headwords, -2- subwords, -3- reverse, -4- last
  compound element, -5- Main word(s) of idiom.  NOTE: the user interface is
  different for this screen. Do not use up or down arrow keys. Instead,
  press the digits to select your choices. You can select both 1 and 2 if
  you want, then press right or left arrow to go to the next or previous
  screen.

     After the range of search, you get to the so-called "Menu screen". To
exit from the menu screen, press F10 followed by Y. The next time you press
shift-Alt from the foreground, you go straight to the "menu screen". Alt
the menu screen, pressing left arrow takes you back through the set-up
screens
     In the Menu screen, enter a word followed by enter. The next screen
shows on each line an item in the dictionary. Move around in the list with
up or down arrow. To select an item, press enter. The next screen shows a
dictionary entry.
     Inside the dictionary entry, an F3 allows you to start marking a
block. Press enter exists the dictionary, and inserts the marked block into
you foreground application.
     To move from the dictionary screens back to the Menu screen, press
F10.


                   LOF -- Library of the Future version 1

     For some screens, text is black on white with cursor being white on
black In others text is black on grey with cursor grey on dark blue
     Press enter at the beginning to get past the nifty "spinning globe"
title screen.
     F1 is the help key in this program.
     I found the book selection procedure in version 1 somewhat confusing.
In places where you are only supposed to select one item, you select with
the enter key. In places where there is more than one item to be selected,
use the space bar.
     You start out at the "Main Menu". Press 1 for titles, 2 for authors, 3
for words, and 4 for strategy.
     If you press 1, you get a different title on each line. The cursor is
always on line 12. Press enter to select that item. Once in an item, press
Page Down to get past the title screen. Once in an item F10 takes you back
to the Main Menu.
     If you press 2 at the Main Menu, you get a 3 column display of
authors. To select an author, put the cursor on it and press the space bar.
Once you have selected all the author(s) you want, press "T" to get the
title list for just those authors. Select among the titles as described in
the previous paragraph.

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     If you press 3 at the Main Menu, you get to type up to 4 different
lines of words. Press F6 for "normal search" (the default). Normal search
means that the conditions are met if all the words on that line occur
somewhere in the work. Press F7 if you want to search for an exact phrase,
F8 for word proximity, F9 for screen proximity. Once you have keyed in all
the search conditions, press F5. This takes you back to the Main Menu.
Don't worry, you have not lost your search conditions. Just press 1 to get
the list of titles. You will only be shown the titles which match your
search conditions.
     If you press 4, you get a menu with three items: 1) Time, 2) Place, 3)
Category. Move the cursor on your choice and press enter. Now you can move
your cursor on specialized lists (item 2 gives you a list of countries)
press the space bar to select all the items you want. When you are
finished, press T to get the title list.
     Of course, you can combine the search conditions: only certain
authors, only works in certain categories, containing certain words. I
leave working out these details as an exercise to the reader.
     When you are in a book, press F3 if you want to save a screen. Then
press P to print it, or F to save it to a file. If you want to save an
entire book to disk, you have give a save command for each screen (when you
use save a second time, you are given the option of appending to the
previous file).
     The LOF batch file accepts an optional parameter. This parameter is a
file name to redirect printer output. For example, you could type:

LOF c:\text\book.tx0 <enter>

     This redirects any printer output to the named file. To print an
entire file, press F3 on the title screen. Then press "P" for print, then
Page Down. Repeat these three keystrokes (F3, P, and Page Down) until you
have processed the entire work. When you are finished, exit the application
to look at the book on disk.
     A second optional parameter is a second file name for a more polished
version of the same text. The second file is created just when you leave
the CD-ROM application. For example, you could type:

LOF c:\text\book.tx0 c:\text\book.txt <enter>

     This redirects the printer as above, but the book.txt file would be
more appropriate for braille translation. For example, you could type:

DOTS1234 c:\text\book.txt ASCD LPT1 <enter>

     This brailles out the book created by the previous operation.
     Please Note: use a full pathname for the parameters to LOF or else
they will get deleted when the temporary directory LOTF is deleted


                   LOF -- Library of the Future version 2

     Press enter at the beginning to get past the swell "spinning globe"
title screen.

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     F1 is the help key in this program.
     You start out at the "Main Menu". Press 1 for titles, 2 for authors, 3
for words, and 4 for strategy.
     If you press 1, you get a different title on each line. The screen is
arranged in three columns: title, author, and then screen numbers. The
active line is line 10. Press enter to select that item. Once in an item,
press Page Down to get past the title screen. Press Escape to back out of
an item.
     If you press 2, you get a different title on each line. The screen is
arranged in three columns: author, title, and then screen numbers. The
active line is line 10. Press enter to select that item. Press left or
right arrow to switch between active columns. Once in an item, press Page
Down to get past the title screen. Press Escape to back out of an item.
     If you press 3 at the Main Menu, you get to type up to 4 different
lines of words. Press F6 for "normal search" (the default). Normal search
means that the conditions are met if all the words on that line occur
somewhere in the work. Press F7 if you want to search for an exact phrase,
F8 for word proximity, F9 for screen proximity. Once you have keyed in all
the search conditions, press F5. This takes you back to the Main Menu.
Don't worry, you have not lost your search conditions. Just press 1 to get
the list of titles. You will only be shown the titles which match your
search conditions.
     If you press 4, you get a complex screen to select different criteria
for specialized searches. Use the arrow keys to move between the different
windows. To explore this screen, borrow a sighted person.
     The LOF batch file accepts an optional parameter. This parameter is a
file name to redirect printer output. For example, you could type:

LOF c:\text\book.tx0 <enter>

     This redirects any printer output to the named file. To print an
entire file, just press F9 on the title screen. Then press "P" for print,
then type 0 <enter> to select the entire book. When output is done (about 2
seconds per screen), exit the application to look at the book on disk.
     A second optional parameter is a second file name for a more polished
version of the same text. The second file is created just when you leave
the CD-ROM application. For example, you could type:

LOF c:\text\book.tx0 c:\text\book.txt <enter>

     This redirects the printer as above, but the book.txt file would be
more 7appropriate for braille translation. For example, you could type: 

DOTS1234 c:\text\book.txt ASCD LPT1 <enter>

     This brailles out the book created by the previous operation.
     Please Note: use a full pathname for the parameters to LOF or else
they will get deleted when the temporary directory LOTF is deleted.





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                          MAGRACK -- Magazine Rack

     The Magazine rack can be very frustrating. The tab key means "go to
the next menu item", shift tab means "go to the previous menu item", and
enter selects a menu item. When you use the tab key, the cursor lands on an
upside down triangle (ASCII character 31). If you use an arrow key, the
cursor may move off the triangle and pressing return will not select
anything.
     The first menu selects which category of magazine you want: (1)
General (2) Business (3) Health and (4) Computer. To get into the health
area, press the tab key 3 times and press enter.
     The next menu selects the type of search you want: (1) keywords (2)
topic (3) product (4) magazine name (5) company (6) article type (7) author
(8) date (9) full text. Press the tab key the appropriate number of times
followed by enter.
     Note: when you first go into the last two screens, there is no cursor.
Only when you press the first tab is a cursor present.
     The different search techniques give different user interfaces.
Generally, press space bar immediately and type the word you want to search
followed by enter. This works for "keyword". During the search, the central
area of the screen is divided into three parts: the upper left is called
"words" or "group", (the list of possible search words the upper right is
called "results" (which contains a cryptic count of the number of articles
that matches the characters you have typed so far). The bottom area is
called "Query" and it contains the sequence you have typed so far.
     To do a search, use control-A for And; control-O for Or; control-N for
Not; and control-E for Exclusive Or.
     In some areas of the program, you select from a list not with "enter",
but with "control-enter". I have been unable to determine any pattern. If
you try to select something and end up with a blank screen, try again and
use "control-enter" instead of "enter".
     To save an article to disk, type control-S followed by a file name
that contains a drive reference (i.e. C:\MAG\NUCLEAR.TXT not
MAG\NUCLEAR.TXT) Without the drive reference, the software will attempt to
store your file on the CD-ROM, which is not allowed. After the file name
type: tab tab down-arrow enter (this selects the entire article, not just
the current screen).
     To leave the program, press Escape a few times and then shift-F10.


                          MSL -- Microsoft Library

     I have programmed "MSL" to work with any similar disk from Microsoft.
You can use MSL to load the Microsoft programmer's library.
     Once in, you have a horizontal menu that consists of "Plan Finance
acct Manage Sell Loss Trade Govt Bis Options Help". Select a menu item by
just typing in the first letter of your choice.
     Be aware that there are really two applications on this CD-ROM, one is
a series of Small Business Administration documents, the other is a series
of statistical records. Two switch between these two areas, press Alt-O.
This calls up a menu of the different areas of the disk.
     To start using the menu, press the right arrow key. In most of the

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menu choices, there is a sub-menu with just two choices: "Search" and
"Titles". Just press enter to select "search"; press down arrow followed by
enter to select "titles". Titles is the easier user interface. You are
given a list of titles. Once you get the cursor over an item, press enter.
     The search is fairly straightforward, use the help if you want to do
something complicated. Once you are looking at the text of one document
specified in your search, use Alt-N for next document, or Alt-P for
previous.
     Once you are reading a document, you can get into another horizontal
menu by pressing the Alt key for a second and then releasing it. The menu
is "Edit View Author Table Search Browse Previous Next Help".
     F8 is supposed to "Zoom out" (take you out of the current item to a
more general menu), and F7 is supposed to "Zoom in". The system uses a
fixed hierarchy of paragraph, chapter, section, and book. If a document
does not have one of these steps, pressing Zoom In or Zoom Out has no
effect. Press it again.
     Escape takes you back to the "Main Menu" (just like when you started).
To leave the program, press Escape followed by enter from the main menu.
     To save material, you first need to mark a block, then save the block
to the clipboard, then copy the clipboard to a file. To mark a block move
the cursor to the beginning of the segment. Press the shift key and hold it
down. While still pressing the shift key, press down arrow or page down
until the entire segment you want to save is highlighted. Only when you
have stopped moving the cursor, let go of the shift key. Release it and
press the Delete key. This copies the text block into the clipboard. Press
O to get the Options Menu. Choose "Save clipboard", and then specify a file
name.


                NATIONS -- Countries of the World on CD-ROM

     Once started, press enter to get past the title screen. In the main
menu, there 5 options listed horizontally: search, browse, contents,
database, and change/exit. Use left and right arrow keys to change, enter
to select. Once you have picked a main choice, go through the sub-menu with
the up and down arrow keys. Press enter to select.
     Use F1 to learn how to write search conditions.
     Back out with the Escape key. At the last point, you are asked "do you
want to leave". Enter "N" or "Y".


                           PHONE -- PhoneDisc USA

     This is a three disk set, one disk for East of the Mississippi, and
one for West of the Mississippi (Wisconsin and Illinois are arbitrarily
placed in the West disk to balance the population) of residential phone
listings; the third disk contains business listings.
     Press return to skip over the opening screen. Immediately type the
name you are searching for. The prompt line is line 1. The list of options
in the bottom line. Lines 3 through 23 each have one entry, with the
"current record" on line 6. The portion of line 6 that matches up with what
you type is shown in reverse video. A copy of the current record is shown

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on a window that appears in the lower right corner; from line 16 through
line 20, on columns 40-79. You may want to set a screen window for these
coordinates.
     To clear the current entry buffer, press HOME. To find out how many
Deckers there are in western US directories, type DECKER F9 <Enter>
<Enter>. The result appears in a window in the center of the screen. Press
F8 to print records. You can print up to 50 records at a time in either
line or label format. Press F5 (if you have a modem) to automatically dial
the current entry.
     Pressing F2 brings a limiting window. You can restrict listings to
those in a particular state or city or street. By being tricky you can do a
search of the entire database for persons living on a particular street.
Type Home to clear the entry line. Now just type A followed by F2. List
your limiting criteria. Then press control left arrow to "erase" the
initial letter "A". Now press Enter to start searching the entire database.
Be aware that this will take many hours.
     On the residential disks, you can only search based on name. On the
business disk, there are two you can press F4 to switch indexes. You can
search by address or by phone number. You can locate a particular business,
and then press F4 to switch indexes to locate business located in the same
building or on the same street. If you have a file containing a list of
phone numbers, you can press F10 to create a list of businesses who have
those numbers.
     Press <Esc> to leave the application.


                   PHONE -- American Business Phone Book

     This disk has 10 million yellow pages listings (business) listings. It
is highly protected to make sure you do not get many records out of the
system. I find this disk so highly protected that it is very difficult to
use. It includes a "meter" that limits the total number of accesses to
5,000 records. Before you can get a single record out, you need to give
permission to cut into the meter.
     Press Enter twice to get started. To start a fresh search, press F4.
Once you type a portion of a name, it insists on doing a national search
before you can enter criteria to limit the geographical search. Press F2 to
get a list of the names of businesses. To actually get the full address and
the phone number, you need to press <Enter>, then give permission to access
the record. If you want to, you can devote a page of printout to your
record.
     To leave this application from the main menu, press F10 followed by
<Esc>.


                          RL -- Reference Library

     This disk is quite confusing, even to a sighted person. Do not expect
any portion of this to make sense and you will do fine.
     There are three screen areas, the menu bar on the top, the book
listing on the right side, and the view window in the rest of the screen.
     Use the TAB key to toggle between working on the book list vs. the

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view window. Use the F10 to focus on the menu bar.
     Here is the list of books to select from:

Alt-S  spelling (no browse)
Alt-D  dictionary
Alt-T  thesaurus (no browse)
Alt-Q  quotations
Alt-R  desk reference
Alt-H  history
Alt-B  business list (list of addresses of thousands of businesses) 
Alt-L  legal/corporate
Alt-C  concise writing

     Once you have chosen a book, the main choice is "browse" and "search".
Use Alt-W for browse, or Alt-A for search
     Other important commands:

Alt-X  exit the program
Alt-P  paste
Alt-M  mark (all or portion of the view window)
Alt-U  unmark
Alt-F  file window (save, print, or exit)
Alt-E  edit window (mark, paste, clear the view window)

     As you locate items, they automatically append to the view window. If
you want to clear the view window, use the following sequence: Alt-E C
<Esc>
     Doing the searches brings up a confusing screen. Here are some sample
searches:
     Lets say you want to search the dictionary for the word chip:

Alt-D [use the dictionary]
Alt-A [do a search]
many backspaces [wipe out characters from a previous search]
chip
Alt-S [start the search, program reports 6 entries found
this information is on the 6th line of the screen]
Alt-E [select them all]
Alt-O [for OK, to actually do the search]

     Instead of Alt-E, you can press down arrow to select a particular
item, then do an Alt-O to search for that particular item.
     If you wanted to search the history file for references to nuclear war
and then save the view file to disk.

Alt-H [use the history file]
Alt-A [do a search]
nuclear war <enter> [enter our search term]
<down arrow> <enter> [select "all text"]
Alt-S [get the search started; find out there are 38 items containing
  "nuclear war"]
Alt-E [select "all of these" entries]

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Alt-O [O for OK, get these items into the view window]
Alt-M [mark the entire view window]
Alt-F [file menu, to select "save"]

     Here is an example of searching the business listing for "TeleSensory
Systems"

TAB [switch to book list]
Alt-B [business listing]
Alt-A [search]
TeleSensory <enter> [enter the search term]
Alt-S [start the search, find out how many TeleSenories there are]
Alt-E [select "all of these"]
Alt-O [OK, do the search]


         SOURCE -- SOURCE DISK on CD-ROMS from Helgerson associates

     This disk contains a listing of titles on CD-ROM. Press enter twice to
get into it. The top line has the program title, the bottom file gives the
function key assignments. The main menu has three options: title,
publisher, and "about this disk". Press enter for title info, down arrow
enter for publisher info. Under "title" in the main men, there are three
sub-menus: subject, title, and publisher. Under "publisher" in the main
menu, there are 26 sub-menus, one for each letter of the alphabet.


                    TIME90 -- Time Magazine Almanac 1990

     You may need VGA graphics in order to access this disk.
     You open to a blank screen with a menu bar on the top line. Left or
right arrow keys select different options. These are browse, search, index,
mark, list, output, help, and quit. Get on top of an option and press enter
to select. You get a sub menu oriented vertically once you select. Press up
or down arrow to select a sub-option, then press enter.
     Once you have selected an article, you can get access to the menu bar
by pressing just the Alt key.
     Once you are in text, you are mark it (makes it available from the
list option. Once you are in text, use output to output to a printer or to
a file.
     To leave the program, select "quit" from the top menu.


                    TIME92 -- Time Magazine Almanac 1992

     This CD-ROM has a hidden text interface (a back door) for use by blind
persons. If you follow the instructions in the box you get a graphical
interface that does not work with speech systems. But it turns out that the
vendor needed a text interface for some networks.
     Wait 10 seconds for a title screen to go away. You open to a blank
screen with a menu bar on the top line. Left or right arrow keys select
different options. These are Browse, Search, View, File, and Help. Get on

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top of an option and press enter to select. You get a sub menu oriented
vertically once you select. Press up or down arrow to select a sub-option,
then press enter.
     Once you have selected an article, you can get access to the menu bar
by pressing just the Alt key.
     Once you are in text, you are mark it (makes it available from the
list option. Once you are in text, use the file menu to save to a disk
file.
     To leave the program, press E for exit from the file menu.


                       USH -- U.S. History on CD-ROM

     Once started, press enter to get past the title screen. In the main
menu, there 5 options listed horizontally: search, browse, contents,
database, and change/exit. Use left and right arrow keys to change, enter
to select. Once you have picked a main choice, go through the sub-menu with
the up and down arrow keys. Press enter to select.
     Use F1 to learn how to write search conditions. This is an easy disk
to work with.
     Back out with the Escape key. At the last point, you are asked "do you
want to leave". Enter "N" or "Y".
     






























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