Abstract : The first microcomputers were developed in the late
1970s and soon a wide variety of these machines were available for
school and home use. This presented both a marvellous opportunity to
improve school education and a significant problem for education
authorities in how to provide support for the range of available
computers. Several countries, including Australia, attempted to solve
this problem by designing and building their own educational computer
systems. This paper briefly describes how New Zealand, the UK and Canada
designed and built computers for use in schools, and looks in more
detail at how Australia started down this path and designed, but did not
ultimately proceed to build an educational computer.
Arthur Tatnall. IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on History of Computing (HC) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC), Sep 2010, Brisbane, Australia. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-325, pp.101-111, 2010, History of Computing. Learning from the Past. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-15199-6_11〉
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Arthur Tatnall, Ralph Leonard. Purpose-Built Educational Computers in the
1980s: The Australian Experience. Arthur Tatnall. IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on History of Computing (HC) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC), Sep 2010, Brisbane, Australia. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-325, pp.101-111, 2010, History of Computing. Learning from the Past. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-15199-6_11〉. 〈hal-01054660〉
