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.