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From: tscott@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Tony Scott)
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Subject: Re: Info Request - ECODISK
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Date: 25 Sep 89 22:31:50 GMT
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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