23-07-2020, 10:59 AM
Thanks to vivid for providing a scan of this newsletter. A4 in size and 26 pages long.
Interface was a Newsletter produced by the Schools Computing Branch of the Education department of Western Australia. This issue, #2 1983, talks about the Microbee being the approved school computer at the time and its introduction. From the newsletter :-
Applied Technology's MICROBEE 64 system, (the Australian system approved for
use in Education Department secondary schools in November, 1982) has become
one of the 'hottest' products on the Australian microcomputer market. The machine
received 'rave' reviews in the March, 1983, edition of the magazine Your Computer
which described the MICROBEE as a 'brilliant little machine' and a 'runaway success'.
Topics in the Newsletter include :-
MICROBEE DELIVERED TO SCHOOLS
PROGRESS TOWARDS NATIONAL COMPUTER EDUCATION PROGRAMME
MICROBEES AT GOSNELLS SHS
SOFTWARE FOR SCHOOLS
MICROBEE SOFTWARE FROM COMMERCIAL SOURCES
COMPUTER FACILITIES FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION
EXPERT VISITS WESTERN AUSTRALIA
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION—The French Experience
ANZAAS - INFORMATION PROCESSING COURSES FOR LOWER SECONDARY STUDENTS
THE USE OF HOME COMPUTERS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
So in the Public repository in the new Magazines/Interface folder we placed
interface_83_02.pdf
Interface was a Newsletter produced by the Schools Computing Branch of the Education department of Western Australia. This issue, #2 1983, talks about the Microbee being the approved school computer at the time and its introduction. From the newsletter :-
Applied Technology's MICROBEE 64 system, (the Australian system approved for
use in Education Department secondary schools in November, 1982) has become
one of the 'hottest' products on the Australian microcomputer market. The machine
received 'rave' reviews in the March, 1983, edition of the magazine Your Computer
which described the MICROBEE as a 'brilliant little machine' and a 'runaway success'.
Topics in the Newsletter include :-
MICROBEE DELIVERED TO SCHOOLS
PROGRESS TOWARDS NATIONAL COMPUTER EDUCATION PROGRAMME
MICROBEES AT GOSNELLS SHS
SOFTWARE FOR SCHOOLS
MICROBEE SOFTWARE FROM COMMERCIAL SOURCES
COMPUTER FACILITIES FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION
EXPERT VISITS WESTERN AUSTRALIA
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION—The French Experience
ANZAAS - INFORMATION PROCESSING COURSES FOR LOWER SECONDARY STUDENTS
THE USE OF HOME COMPUTERS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
So in the Public repository in the new Magazines/Interface folder we placed
interface_83_02.pdf
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