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INTERFACE Newsletter from the Education Department of Western Australia - ChickenMan - 22-07-2023
More from my recent purchase of Microbee material, there was a collection of the INTERFACE Newsletters produced by the Education Department of Western Australia. These were a professionally produced booklets, A4 in size and ranged from 22 to 52 pages long. Three issues were produced each year and we now have them complete from 1983 to 1986, when it was concluded. There were earlier editions produced so if anyone can help with those, that would be greatly appreciated.
During 1983 in Western Australia the BBC computer was approved for Primary Schools and the Microbee 64k approved for Secondary Schools. An interesting article in the 83_02 issue was :-
The MICROBEE 64 is carrying the flag for Australian designed microcomputers
at a time when government bodies at both the State and Federal level are
looking closely into the question of preference for Australian manufactured
hardware. Because of the excellence of the product, many people were
disappointed when there were delays in the initial MICROBEE orders to Western
Australian schools. These delays were caused by an injunction brought against
Applied Technology (the manufacturers of the MICROBEE) by an Eastern States
distributor of computer products. The injunction sought to prevent the
distribution of MICROBEE systems to schools and educational institutions, pending
the outcome of a claim by the distributor for exclusive rights to distribute
MICROBEE computers to schools. As reported in the Financial Review of July 12th,
the court case was ultimately settled with Applied Technology as the sole
distributor to schools as well as the retail market in Australia. In the meantime,
the inevitable hold-ups resulting from legal action caused delays in the supply
of systems to schools.
From the 83_02 issue and onwards, in these Newsletters there was much discussion concerning the Microbee, lots of picture of them being used and, particularly, lots of reviews of the software for the Microbee, including the Education Departments own produced products for the Microbee. We already have some of this software, but more to come shortly.
There were also 2 other documents that were 100% Western Australian Education Department related, so have included them in this Interface collection also.
So in the Public Repository in the Newsletters\Interface folder we placed
Interface_83_01.pdf
Interface_83_02.pdf <-- updated better quality
Interface_83_03.pdf
Interface_84_01.pdf
Interface_84_02.pdf
Interface_84_03.pdf
Interface_85_01.pdf
Interface_85_02.pdf
Interface_85_03.pdf
Interface_86_01.pdf
Interface_86_02.pdf
Interface_86_03.pdf
primary_school_computing_83_11.pdf
wa_information_on_computers_in_schools.pdf