12-10-2023, 10:17 AM
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was an original disk of WORLD CLIMATE and its Manual. The disk was a standard Microbee 5.25" disks that images 100% error free via my Floppyio. The manual was A5 in size and 26 pages long. Scanned at 600pdi and converted to a searchable PDF as usual. The program was also available for the BBC Computer and the manual is for both the BBC and Microbee computers.
World Climate was produced by the Education Department of WA by the School Computing Branch in 1986 (1985 for BBC version) with the Microbee version programmed by A. Italiano. The manual also includes a number of Worksheets for students to work through. The disk boots to this menu -
These simulations enable students to explore how climates are
determined by the major factors. Specifically students will learn that:
• temperature decreases with increasing latitude.
• temperature decreases with increasing altitude.
• rainfall decreases with distance from the coast in the
direction of the prevailing wind.
• rainfall increases as the temperature of the ocean currents
over which the prevailing wind blows, increases.
• rainfall increases on the windward side of mountain ranges
and decreases on the leeward side.
So in the MBeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Software/Education folder we placed
world_climate_wesoft_ds40.dsk
world_climate.pdf <-- in the Documentation/Manuals/Education folder
world_climate.jpg <-- in the Documentation/Pictures/Disks/5.25_inch folder
World Climate was produced by the Education Department of WA by the School Computing Branch in 1986 (1985 for BBC version) with the Microbee version programmed by A. Italiano. The manual also includes a number of Worksheets for students to work through. The disk boots to this menu -
These simulations enable students to explore how climates are
determined by the major factors. Specifically students will learn that:
• temperature decreases with increasing latitude.
• temperature decreases with increasing altitude.
• rainfall decreases with distance from the coast in the
direction of the prevailing wind.
• rainfall increases as the temperature of the ocean currents
over which the prevailing wind blows, increases.
• rainfall increases on the windward side of mountain ranges
and decreases on the leeward side.
So in the MBeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Software/Education folder we placed
world_climate_wesoft_ds40.dsk
world_climate.pdf <-- in the Documentation/Manuals/Education folder
world_climate.jpg <-- in the Documentation/Pictures/Disks/5.25_inch folder
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