PennComp Announces Quotemaster Plus for Windows 2.0, and Four New Quotepacks HOUSTON, TEXAS -- August 24, 1992 -- PennComp today announced Quotemaster Plus Version 2.0 for Windows and four new Quotebases. Quotemaster Plus for Windows Version 2.0 -- is the literary quotation retrieval software package for writers, speakers, executives, and full-time daydreamers. This latest Windows version of the award winning Quotemaster Plus provides the user with significant new features and enhancements. Quotemaster Plus for Windows Version 2.0 features the familiar functions of Quotemaster Plus, including: searching by author, subject, and the ability to add personal and favorite quotations. New Quotemaster Plus 2.0 features include an all new interactive screen interface with the Windows "look and feel. " Power button bars and icons now direct the user through quotation search steps, making the process effortless. A totally redesigned search engine enables the program to act and react like a typical Windows application, resulting in outstanding Quotemaster functionality and dramatically improved searching speed. According to Matthew Blake, Marketing Director of PennComp, "This latest version of Quotemaster Plus for Windows is far and away the best Windows application for quotations on the market today." NEW QUOTEMASTER PLUS 2.0 FOR WINDOWS FEATURES * Text String Searching: A new feature of Quotemaster Plus for Windows not available in any other literary quotation retrieval software. If you can not remember the whole quotation, but remember specific words, just type them in the word list box. The resulting search finds every quotation containing that word or phrase. * Improved Topic and Word Search: The Quotemaster Search Engine is designed specifically for the Windows environment. The average time to search on a subject is now .05 seconds, providing up to 20 quotations a second. This means the time searching for quotation combinations has dramatically decreased. * Hierarchical Search: If the right word escapes you, try the Quotemaster for Windows Hierarchical Search. The Hierarchical Search will focus a broad area of interest into specific words and subjects that will provide bountiful quotations on your subject. For instance, the broad subject of "Human Nature" yields the secondary subject of "Competition." This, in turn, provides the word "Originality," of which a dozen quotes originate. * Multiple Search "Memory": An intense search can last a while. This utility remembers the combinations that revealed certain quotations. No longer will that perfect quotation remain lost because you can't remember the right search combination. * Favorite Quote Library: This function stores twelve of your favorite quotations for instant retrieval, bypassing the search process entirely. This function is best for those who find themselves referring to the same quotations over and over. * Quotation Counting: This new function answers the question, "Just how many quotations are there on the subject of Love?" The answer is about 234 in the full package. The Quote List will display the entire list or view each quotation with one click of the button. Quotemaster Plus for Windows is still the only quotation software package on the market with additional quotepacks on specific topics, or the ability to add personal and favorite quotations. These new features continue Quotemasters' dominance in features and functionality in the literary quotation retrieval software field. NEW HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FEATURES * Screen Attributes: A totally redesigned screen offers easy access to every Quotemaster function. Access any command by clicking on the menu bar or tool bar icons. For example, a combination search using subject and author in a specific era takes three simple button clicks. Quotemaster Plus 2.0 for Windows provides the perfect quotation every time. * Fully Automatic Quotebase/Author Information Installation: Install all supplemental quotebases and the Author Information System directly from the base program. Installation of one of our new quotepacks is now easier than ever. FOUR NEW QUOTEPACKS In conjunction with the latest Windows release, PennComp is offering four quotepacks available to all Quotemaster users, Windows, Macintosh, and DOS. Each quotebase contains 1600 quotations and increases the total quotebase to over 9000. These new quotepacks are Humor, Government/Politics, Society, and Motivational. * Humor: Funny thoughts from the sublime to the hilarious, covering a range of humor quoting Johnny Carson to William Shakespeare. Guaranteed to brighten those boring mandatory sales meetings. * Society: Thoughts on the world and its people. Authors comment on the fabric that makes up our society. Topics range from religion to the bomb. This quotebase pack will make you think. * Government/Politics: Just in time for the election season. A generous helping of thoughts from those we elected to office, and those whose job it is to watch them. After reading some of these, you may wonder how they were ever elected! * Motivational: Inspirational and encouraging words for the home and business. Excellent quotations to start your day or your meeting. Includes support from Lee Iaccoca, T. S. Elliot, and Henry Ford. PRICING, ORDERING INFORMATION, SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Quotemaster Plus for Windows sells for a suggested retail price of $89.00. Additional quotepacks are $60.00. The Author Information package is $45.00. The Quotemaster Plus Professional package containing base package, author information, and all quotepacks is $270.00. Existing users can upgrade to the base package and receive a free quotebase pack for $55.00, or upgrade to Quotemaster Plus Professional for $199.00. Quotemaster Plus for Windows, author base, and the four quotepacks are available immediately from PennComp or retail outlets. New orders, upgrades or requests for information about Quotemaster Plus for Windows can be made directly by telephone at (800) 326-6145 or (713) 669-0965, by fax at (713) 669-1014, or by writing PennComp at PO BOX 271529, Houston, TX 77277. Quotemaster Plus for Windows requires MS Windows 3.0 or higher, 1 MB RAM or better of memory and 2.7 to 5.3 MB disk space. Houston based PennComp is a consulting firm and a developer of productivity software for writers and public speakers. PennComps' Quotemaster Plus family of products has been in existence since 1988 with users worldwide. 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