The Amstrad PC 1512 was a British personal computer produced in 1986. The Amstrad PC 1512 introduced low-cost personal computers to the market, costing one quarter what it's competitors did at the time, roughly 400 pounds compared to the more common price tag of just under 1500 pounds. The Amstrad PC 1512 was based upon the Intel 8086 processor running at 8 Mhz and was fitted with 512 kb of RAM, expandable to 640 kb and ran MS-DOS 3.2 and the DOS+ operating systems. The Amstrad PC 1512 had a 14-inch 16-colour monitor with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells. Storage was provided by 5.25-inch 360 kb floppy disk drives and a 10 or 20 mb internal hard disk. Research Amstrad PC 1512
The Black Swan HTML editor is a quick, powerful, small, inexpensive, and easy-to-use HTML editor for the Windows operating system, able to design very sophisticated Web pages and HTML help files.
Black Swan supports HTML 4.0 and all Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer tags and attributes. For beginners, Black Swan provides an Internet overview and explains step by step how to design and publish Web pages. Features include a tag inspector, several wizards, a table builder, a link manager, professionally predesigned templates, search capabilities, bookmarks, and more. Research Black Swan
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an element of web page design first drafted in early 1996, to provide HTML documents published on the world wide web with a means of suggesting the appearance of the document in terms of typefaces, colours and general appearance. A style, in terms of a cascading style sheet style, is simply a rule which instructs a browser how to display a particular HTML tag, for example what colour to display text within <H1> </H1> tags. Styles can also suggest positioning for divisions of content, text and images. The World Wide Web Consortium, realising the scope of browsers and computerhardware available and that many manufacturers would be selective in their support for different styles, were keen to emphasise that styles should suggest, not dictate, the appearance of HTML documents when rendered, and to stress to web designers that unsupported styles would simply be ignored by a browser. The power of cascading style sheets to the designer lies in the premise that once a style rule has been decided upon, it only needs to be defined once, with many
pages loading the same cascading style sheetdefinition and applying the same, uniform rules to their HTMLtags, rather than needing to adjust the properties of every occurrence of the same HTML tag on multiple pages. Research Cascading Style Sheets
Lap-Link III is a data migration product that takes a different approach from most other products. The package is ideally suited to those who find DOS commands cryptic, since
Lap-Link III presents users with a completely menu-driven operation. Unlike other data migration products that only operate as DOS device drivers, Lap-Link III can perform lightning fast file transfer from one format to another without its optional device driver being installed.
Lap-Link IIl's unique split-screen design helps you keep track of what files you are working with. You can even tag several files or use wildcards when tagging files marked for transfer. Research Lap-Link
TIFF (Tag Image File Format) is a now dated format of bitmap image file developed by the Aldus Corporation for data exchange between desktop publishing and related computer applications, notably high quality exchange between the displayed and printed pictures. Research TIFF
IST is an abbreviation for Inspection Status Tag
IST is an abbreviation for Insulin Shock Therapy
IST is an abbreviation for Integrated Status Tag
IST is an abbreviation for Integrated System Test Research IST
Touch-Chasing is a street and playground game known under various names including: ticky touchwood, touch, tag, it, tip and dobby. It consists of one person chasing until he reaches and touches another, saying something like 'you're it' as he does so. The touched person then becomes the chaser, until he makes a touch. The game continues until the players get fed up. Traditionally there has always been one chance of escape from the chaser - to touch something that offers safety, such as a door, lamppost or whatever is designated through convenience. Research Touch-Chasing
The Probert Encyclopaedia was designed, edited and programed by
Matt and Leela Probert
Abbreviations
Research Amstrad PC 1512
