>The Fort MacArthur Museum is a weekend military museum

>Given our almost nonexistent staff, budget and weekend hours, can
>anyone suggest an inexpensive software for collections?

May I suggest Lotus Approach?  It's cheap, it's fully relational and
user-friendly, and it should be able to handle anything you want to do for
the forseeable future.  Since it can save in any of several x-based formats,
you can easily implement a more powerful engine such as dBase, Paradox,
etc., with no problem if you suddenly get rich.

Art

Arthur H. Harris
Laboratory for Environmental Biology
Centennial Museum
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX  79968-0519
USA
Fax (915) 747-5808
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