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	Title: (News In Brief) Quit Playing Around...
	Source: PC Magazine, v4(1)
	Date: January 8, 1985
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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**Infocom**, the text-adventure game maker,
has created its first business software product — a database system
called *Cornerstone*. Like Infocom's highly successful science
ficiton and mystery interactive-fiction software, its database manager
is designed to make nonprogrammers feel comfortable with
computers.

*Cornerstone*'s help and options keys are always available to
trigger context-sensitive explanations that are based on the structure
of the database you have created. The program's ease of use doesn't
reduce its range of features. For example, you can modify your
database at any time.

<img class="float-left" src="/public/img/articles/pcmag-cornerstone-announcement/cornerstone-packaging.jpg" alt="Cornerstone packaging">

An automatic wraparound feature allows data of any size to fit
into a field without requiring you to specify a maximum length in
advance. The sorting process lets you use English-language commands,
such as AFTER JULY 1980 or BEFORE YESTERDAY or
BEATLES... KINKS INCLUSIVE.

*Cornerstone* requires at least 256K and DOS 2.0 or later. Its list
price will be $495 when available from this Cambridge, Mass.,
company on January 31, 1984.

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