Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!network.ucsd.edu!HP-UX!tscott From: tscott@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Tony Scott) Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc Subject: Re: Info Request - ECODISK Message-ID: <1986@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 22:31:50 GMT References: <133200005@cdp> Sender: nobody@network.ucsd.edu Reply-To: tscott@weber.UUCP (Tony Scott) Organization: SSCF, UCSD Lines: 24 In article <133200005@cdp> rrohwedder@cdp.UUCP writes: > >Greetings. Does anyone out there have some contact information on >a videodisc (or perhaps a CD Rom) project called EcoDisk. I believe >that Apple Computer and the BBC are working on it together. I've >heard that it is a simulation of an ecosystem (or something to that >effect). I need a name, address, phone #, etc of a contact person. > >-- Rocky Rohwedder > Ecodisk was a BBC project, which I believe has been implemented so far for the Acorn BBC Master interactive video kit, and the Research Machines Nimbus interactive video kit, both distributed to a number of UK school districts. I believe part of the idea was to make use of the technology which had been developed for the BBC Domesday anniversary project, but there were delays because standards changed. try National Interactive Video Centre, part of UK Council of Educational Technology, in London. Tony Scott, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, UCSD