1.   An online database, the electronic equivalent of Biological Abstracts.

2.   And it is the electronic equivalent of a search for the ultimate needle in the ultimate haystack.

3.   Any such operation would have to be carried out under strict court control as the electronic equivalent of a search warrant.

4.   A. BBS is short for Bulletin Board System, and as the name implies, a BBS is an electronic equivalent of a bulletin board.

5.   But that was the electronic equivalent of biblical generations ago.

6.   In the wake of the Oklahoma City trauma, it would be difficult to think of anything more comforting than the electronic equivalent of Ovaltine and cookies.

7.   Is there an electronic equivalent of the old auto chop shop?

8.   It even requires the electronic equivalent of a diaper change, which can be done with the push of a button.

9.   Not surprisingly, all sorts of innovative services are springing up as the electronic equivalents of the trusty telephone book.

10.   Some of these are simply electronic versions of traditional instruments, like the synthesizer, which is the electronic equivalent of the piano.