Your ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.
 
          After having collected several hundred artifacts and bagged
          them along with location information, the time is coming to
          put all the relevant data about the findings into some kind
          of data base.
 
          Does anyone have any suggestions about the best software to
          buy for archeological purposes?  Please consider that the
          project I am pursuing is not funded by any grant; the
          software will be paid for out of my own pocket.  I expect
          that at least the data base should allow one to be able to
          call and sort data by several variables, and permit one to
          develop 3-d graphics illustrating the specific locations
          where specific artifacts were found, and be easy to use.  I
          have a 486 IBM type computer that operates at 25 meg, but
          am willing to upgrade if it is necessary to get the job
          done.
 
          Do you have suggestions about the best ways to store
          archeological data on computer, including any suggestions
          for categorization and use of codings for location, type of
          item, etc.
 
          Please offer your suggestions about the best specific
          software to use to do the above functions with archeological
          data and coding suggestions.
 
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