1.	NAME OF CD-ROM DATABASE	25 DYNASTIC HISTORIES
2.	DATE OF 1st ISSUE	around 1990/91
3.	ISSUEING AGENCY	Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology
4.	DISTRIBUTION	same as issue agency
7.	NETWORKABLE	yes
8.	CODING OF CHARACTERS	Shift BIG-5, in 1994 converted to BIG-5 (perhaps not implemented on the older CDs)
9.	NUMBER OF CDs	one
10.	PRICE	no specs given (priceless...!)
11.	SHORT DESCRIPTION	the official and standard histories, comprising around 40 million characters. Note that this version of the 25 Shih is not officially available, but since its existence is well known I thought to incorporate it in this overview.