Harper & Row is developing a computer software package of the complete 250,000 word "Roget's International Thesaurus" for use primarily by research libraries, newspapers and magazines. The package will initially be marketed in hard disk form for use on minicomputers; a floppy disk version for 16K micros may follow. Software is being developed for the publisher by Dictronics, a New York firm that specializes in transferring printed reference material into machine- readable form. A retail price has yet to be established for the software which is expected to be available by Spring, 1983. The company sees no market for on-line remote access to the thesaurus at this point.
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