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  • Japan School Year 2021-2022 Begins
    Well, the new school year has started in Japan. Japan is one of the few countries around the globe that starts their school year in the spring. Generally, this occurs sometime between the 1st and the 12th of April with the end of the school year coming in the third week of March. At one time during the past year, the Japanese government contemplated changing this system to match the rest of the world but it was decided that the change would be too costly at a time when Covid-19 has made funds for such things relatively scarce. But this…
  • Oregon Trail History on 40th Anniversary of the game
    http://www.citypages.com/news/oregon-trail-how-three-minnesotans-forged-its-path-6745749 Don Rawitsch rolled out a four-foot-long piece of white butcher paper on the living room floor of his Crystal apartment. He glanced at an open map of the United States frontier from the 1800s. Then he traced a squiggly line from the right side of the paper to the left. By the time his roommates Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger returned home, the line had become a series of squares leading across a map of the western U.S. Rawitsch was scratching out words on a stack of cards. “Broken wagon wheel,” said one. “Snakebite,” said another. Heinemann, Rawitsch, and…
  • [RUN”HISTORY #3] Learning by Doing – MECC and the Apple II
    By J. Arcane From: Colony of Gamers Forums Learning by Doing Minnesota is probably not the first name on most people’s minds as a hot spot of technology, but back in the 1960s, it was one of the centers of mainframe computing. CDC was in Minneapolis, so was GE’s UNIVAC, and the University of Minnesota was beginning to experiment with computer learning. A grassroots movement made mostly of math teachers who had spent time on these machines, was experimenting with setting up TTY terminals in classrooms connected by modem to whatever timeshare machine they could get time on. By the…
  • MECC Announced Amazon Trail II
    MECC Announces Amazon Trail II,a CD-ROM Rainforest Adventure MECC announces the upcoming release of Amazon Trail II, a rainforest adventure CD-ROM. The new product has been dramatically upgraded from MECC’s original Amazon Trail CD, which has sold more than one million units and received the coveted 1996 Newsweek Editors Choice Award.  Amazon Trail II features approximately 70 live actors whose voices and images have been recorded, digitized and placed in three-dimensional settings for a first-person “you are there” effect. The characters all are part of an integrated fictional story in which players must “prove they are worthy” to receive critical…