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Welcome to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium Software Repository. (MECC.co) This site grew out of the need for many educators still using MECC software for their classes. While the MECC has gone long by the way side with their doors finally closing in 1999 permanently, their Apple II and early Macintosh / Windows / DOS software legacy lives on. While there are many sites out there dedicated to vintage computing, this is the only one that is solely dedicated to the MECC software and its legacy.
Our current MECC library implementation is primarily for the Apple II Series and and Macintosh / Windows / MS-DOS with all items are playable on our built-in emulators as well as offline with our emulator packages. At a future time, we will add Commodore, IBM and other platforms which MECC produced software for as the assets are acquired or re-constituted.
All of the Apple II software contained in this site is playable in your Internet browser through the Virtual Apple II website. We are working to make all titles interact with Virtual Apple II in a seamless manner. We are also adding external emulators which will allow you to run the programs locally offline from the site, as well as on portable devices. This option is still not completely available and is in progress. Educators who need to run multiple copies of a program and don’t want to use bandwidth will be able to use the disk images in an offline emulator.
The Macintosh based items are being prepared as well, with an emulator which will run on All Mac OS based systems as well as iOS based iPads being constructed at the moment. This emulation system will include all of the available Applications in its library and users will be able to run through several programs in a short order of time, making this emulation system ideal for educational system environments where re-sources are limited.
In all of our offerings on this site, we have attempted to be as complete as possible, providing disks, emulators, student handouts, and even hardcover manuals so that educators can continue to use the items for their classes in a manner which is easy to use and also fun for students.
MECC Guides are perfect for teachers wanting to enhance their lessons and to allow students to learn as much as possible during their computing experience. The MECC Guides are complete with forms which can be filled out by students and turned in as part of the lesson. We hope you enjoy this site and if you have things to add to the site which are not already here, please contact us via the contact form.
Also within the pages of this website, you will find historical postings of events and information from MECC and their history in the state of Minnesota. This includes historical legal documents, timelines, TV programs, photos and videos, among other historically significant items.
This site has been a labor of love on the part of those who have created it, provided information to it and physically typed in documents when no electronic copy existed. Our thanks go to the people who helped make this site a reality, the original MECC product authors and the providers of the original MECC materials for the collection herein.