PC Products Database Continues Growing At Amazing Rate!

Now Lists Over 67,700 Products From 23,600 Companies/Authors
Associated Weekly Newswire Now Available For BBS Distribution

January 14, 1995 -- The February release of the PC Products Database from
Baker Enterprises includes information on over 67,700 products from over
23,600 companies/authors from throughout the PC industry. The entire
database is available in several formats from EMS Professional Software
(EMS) or online via America Online (AOL). The database includes all
companies/authors offering products and/or services to the PC marketplace,
including: software (commercial and shareware, systems, expansion
hardware, peripherals, accessories, services, organizations, books/videos
& other publications, plus much, much more.

For each company, the database lists complete mailing addresses, phone
numbers (voice, fax, 800#, BBS, etc.), Email addresses and/or Internet
ftp/gopher/www pointers. Product information is limited to a 60 character
field for the company name and whatever brief description or keywords will
fit. The database is designed to be a yellow pages of the industry,
providing a quick and easy way to find who-makes-what and where to contact
them for more information on a particular product. It does not attempt to
provide detailed product descriptions, pricing information, etc. due to
the wide scope of products and services covered.

EMS provides their PC Products Database as a dBase version of the data
compressed on floppy disk, complete with their customized search engine
and user interface. This package provides everything needed to search by
company/author name or product name. The total database, complete with
product indexing information, includes over 205,000 records of information
currently. The floppy based dBase version sells for only $25 plus $5
shipping & handling supplied on three high density floppy diskettes that
expand to over 30MB of disk space when installed. This version is updated
monthly and is available in various subscription packages at reduced
prices for those that need to stay up to date. See below for contact
information for EMS.

EMS also provides the same dBase package along with a more comprehensive
WinHelp version and a universal ASCII text copy on CD-ROM. The WinHelp
version is a five file package that is over 78MB in size and allows
additional searching by product type from nearly 700 product categories.
This version also allows you to add your own annotations and bookmarks,
see list of all companies that product a particular product type, and
more. The ASCII text file is approximately 10MB in size and allows users
of non-PC based machines to access the basic information using standard
grep or similar text search utilities. Check with EMS for availability and
current pricing of the bi-monthly CD-ROM version. The next CDs should be
ready in early February and will include our past news archive files as an
added bonus.

The online database that appears on AOL as the PC Vendors Database (keyword
= PC Vendors) is organized as separate text articles per company,
providing current mailing addresses, phone numbers, Email address and/or
Internet ftp/gopher/www points, plus complete product list. The
information is searchable by company, author and product name as well as
various keyword references. Updates are generated quarterly for AOL, with
the next update due to be available online in early March. Unfortunately
AOL does not always get the updates installed quickly and is typically
several months behind. We're currently working on additional methods of
providing access to our growing information resource!

Baker Enterprises provides an international newswire service covering the
entire PC and Macintosh markets, cataloging all information distributed
(along with other research information) in the massize database mentioned
above. We also distribute news bulletins from the Software Publishers
Association (SPA) and other organizations as well as show announcements
and similar general industry news.

The 'New Product News' newswire is distributed daily via America Online
(keyword = New Products) and Delphi (GO BUSINESS PRODUCT). The same news
is also available weely for distribution via affiliated local BBS services
and internal corporate networks via BBS Press Service (see below for
contact information and how to access sample issues). Monthly news archive
files are generated for the download libraries on AOL and Delphi, and can
also be found in the 'msdos/bakernws' and 'win3/bakernws' subdirectories
on SIMTEL and all worldwide mirror sites on the Internet.

**** Note that there is NO CHARGE to any company or author submitting
     material for worldwide distribution or inclusion in the database!

Please address all news and database submissions, or inquiries concerning
using our news or database information for other applications, directly to
our attention:
 
     BAKER ENTERPRISES
     20 Ferro Drive
     Sewell, NJ 08080 USA
     Voice: 609-582-9203
     Fax:   609-582-9204
     Internet:    RBakerPC@delphi.com
     AOL/Delphi:  RBakerPC

For more information on our PC Products Database, contact:

     EMS Professional Software
     4505 Buckhurst Ct.
     Olney, MD 20832-1830 USA
     Voice: 301-924-3594
     Fax:   301-963-2708
     Internet: eengelmann@worldbank.org

For more information on our New Product News for local BBS services and
internal corporate networks, contact:

     BBS Press Service Inc
     8125 S.W. 21st St
     Topeka, KS 66615 USA
     Voice: 913-478-3157
     BBS:   913-478-9239  (includes news service samples!)

A sample copy of the current weekly issue of the New Product News is
available on their BBS at all times! Note that this information is delayed
approximately 1-2 weeks from the online newswires.

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 From the 'New Product News' Electronic News Service provided
 via AOL (Keyword = New Products) & Delphi (GO BUSINESS PROD)
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 This information was processed from data provided by the 
 company or author mentioned. For additional details, please 
 contact them directly at the address/phone number indicated.
 OmniPage Pro is now used for converting all printed input! 
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 All submissions for this service should be addressed to:
 BAKER ENTERPRISES,  20 Ferro Dr,  Sewell, NJ  08080  U.S.A.
 Email: RBakerPC (AOL/Delphi), rbakerpc@delphi.com (Internet)
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