European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse By Stephen Williams new Daya a i be got the. World on a.screen., armchair travel once the province of imaginative readers who pulled their adventures off a travel Bookstore shelf has taken on a whole new dimension with the introduction of pc Globe 4.0, a dazzling computer program designed to take you around the world without boarding a plane a or leaving a desk. Pc Globe the product of a few Fertile research oriented minds at a Phoenix based software company is a fact packed electronic gazetteer. And while educators and businesses figure As its main targets pc Globe can be a great Deal of fun for tourists who believe that half the fun of travel is preparing to go. A couple of floppy. Discs in this Case just might replace that Bulky Atlas or. Stack of maps. C a Quot a a a the software offered for use with the current crop of ism personal con Peters and ism compatible systems combines maps graphics charts and text to give a social. Economic and cultural overview of 190 countries and a a couple of thousand cities. Besides its socioeconomic and Scholastic value the \ data base a and Here s where travel comes in a defines each country s time zone annual weather and temperature patterns monetary Exchange rates International dealing codes major tourist attractions and visa and health requirements. Pc Globe arrives programmed with the monetary. Exchange rates worldwide but these will require periodic adjustments which can easily be accomplished just by following the program s on screen directions. Telephone and telex codes Are provided As Well for each country or City. A Friendly users who Are also frequent fliers can request that pc Globe figure the distance in Miles or Kilometres Between any two cities in its vast listing. It took the computer less than half a minute to figure that it s 3,34.1 Miles Between Novi sad Yugoslavia and Nab Esindu _ Rwanda. Pc Globe also draw s the line for you on its world map. A a a a Don t expect Guidebook detail a pm Niobe won t list the cheapest hotel in. Bologna or the Best Bistro in Lyons but i could t conceive of hitting the foreign Road without a guide in hand anyway. Best to think of the program As a kind of Broad stroke introduction world with lots of details thrown in. A a. For instance need to know the National Anthem of Botswana pc Globe will Fly the National Flag while it plays Quot fat she la Rona Quot Quot blessed be this of Loble land Quot in computer esque music. Those anticipating a troja to or through equatorial Guinea will discover that Theja Guage spoken by most of its residents is Fang. Sociologists might note that the life expectancy of a woman in equatorial Guinea is 48 ears compared to 80 years in France. Other Little known by me at least bits of information that pc Globe displays at the touch of the flags of Hungary Iran Italy and Are All red White _ and Green Only 2 percent of Israel s residents speak yiddish hebrew is King at 69 percent the largest City in. Industries of Little Liechtenstein is whipped Cream. If you get fooled by geographic acronyms the Quot select a group opt Orron the program will also graphically identity All the member nations of 1,8. International organizations including the United nations the acc. Nato the Oas and open. A a a a a the map graphics Are fascinating. The world or a Region or continent can be. Drawn with or without. Borders. The Brilliant colors cart to switched at will Hungary in hot Pink is Swelland the data included in the from Gross National products to literacy _. Rates to numbers of elementary schools can be compared among countries As Weli As displayed for a individual a a hackers with a Morei Ochnio a Bent should note that pc Globe s text and files can lie printed out As Well As Quot exported Quot for integration into such popular applications software As Lotus 1-2-3, word perfect word processing and pc Paintbrush. _ a. Quot pc Globe is available in either 3.5-Inch or 5.25-Inch floppies. A. A companion program is pc Usa which gives similar breakdowns of the 50 states and puerto Rit o7the us Prog Rani also in eludes a data base Fiir Phil tical a. Information a sue h As the number cof registered voters and electoral votes by state As Well As state by Sla be specifics n crime violent crime,.-murder/robbery assault and Auto Belt. A a a _. Both programs Are available a some Aalfs pos exchanges in Europe and in be ordered through any of them for $45.50. The programs can also be ordered from a variety of disc it unt a ,. A a f. Greenland is Uuk 1 2,000 people and one of the major april 4, Vij 1 stripes Muj Ziff
