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Birds of Antarctica disk and updated Manual for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 28-07-2023
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was an original Birds of Antarctica manual and disk. Our current manual in the Repository originated from a photocopy version and was minus front & back covers and all the pictures were of poor quality. The pictures have been replaced with 600dpi quality scans and front and back covers added. The sized of the manual is an odd size, about 1/2 way between A4 & A5 and is 93 pages long. Contents of the manual is
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD 3
INTRODUCTION 4
SECTION I ANTARCTICA AND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN —
A RESOURCE GUIDE 6
Introduction 6
Climate 7
The Antarctic Marine Ecosystem 10
The Seabirds of Antarctica 13
Man in Antarctica 23
Antarctica as a location for Scientific Research 25
SECTION II COLLECTION OF THE DATA 29
SECTION III STRUCTURE OF THE DATA BASE 32
SECTION IV RETRIEVING THE INFORMATION 37
SECTION V STUDENT ACTIVITIES 46
SECTION VI ANSWER KEY 66
SECTION VII FURTHER INFORMATION 73
Queensland 73
New South Wales 73
Victoria 74
South Australia 75
Western Australia 75
Tasmania 76
Australian Capital Territory 76
Northern Territory 77
APPENDIX I SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF BIRDS, AVERAGE WING SPAN AND
OVERALL LENGTH 78
APPENDIX II ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 79
APPENDIX III GLOSSARY 82
APPENDIX IV SOME IDEAS FOR INTRODUCING THE ANTARCTIC
SCIENCE DATA BASE 83
APPENDIX V GUIDE TO LEGAL VALUES FOR CODED AND
SCALED FIELDS 84
BIBLIOGRAPHY 86The Birds of Antarctica was produced by the National Information Technology Committee and the Elizabeth Computer Centre as an activity of Information Technology Month in 1984.
The package has the specific aim of demonstrating the use of a database to
high school students in order that they gain a greater understanding of
how information technology can be applied. Moreover, the chosen application,
putting up data relating to the Antarctic, opens up new concepts. Not only
does it provide data for research, but it also demonstrates a real life
application of computers.
Tucked in the back of the manual was a pouch containing an original 5.25" Microbee disk that was produced by the Department of Education of Western Australia. An attempted was made to image it but the disk was too damaged and unable to get a clean image, although some of the files were recoverable. Going through the rest of the floppy disk collection I found 2 other original disks, one of which imaged 100% error free. So this disk complements the 3.5" disk we already have in the Repository but files look identical. The disk label was also scanned.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Education folder we placed
birds_of_antarctica_ds40.dsk
birds_of_antarctica_users_manual.pdf <-- updated and in the Documentation\Manuals\Education folder
birds_of_antarctica.jpg <-- in the Documentation\Pictures\Disks\5.25_inch folder