Los Angeles-based HSC Software Inc has introduced SantaFe Media Manager, a multimedia software program designed to enable databases to store and retrieve still images, video, audio and text: the company sees it being used for business presentations, education and training, desktop communications and presentation graphics, video and film and audio applications and says the MS-DOS 3.3 up program can be used as a front end to all the leading databases and that it is fully compatible with Paradox 3.5; it needs a 12MHz 80286-based AT-alike with 640Kb, another 400Kb available expanded memory and an SVGA monitor and SVGA video card with 512Kb of video RAM – and a minimum 20Mb hard disk are also needed while audio needs an audio card; the program sells for $900.
