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- COMMODORE SCHOOLS CATALOGUE
-
- By Mitch Reynolds
-
- I was helping out at school recntly in our computer rooms and we were
- tidying up. I noticed that there was an old Commodore Schools
- Catalogue (and you thought that the Amiga was never pushed as an
- education platform). So I quickly swiped it and bunged it in my
- back. I though that it may be of interest so I have retyped some
- of it, just for you!
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- For more than thirty years Commodore has been developing an enviable
- reputation for the production of business machines which are both innovative
- and value for money. Today, Commodore is the second largest computer
- manufacturer in western Europe ( Boo Hoo! - Mitch). In 1987 Commodore UK
- made a conscious decision to commit itself to education and liaised directly
- with relevant educational bodies (DES, LEAs and techers) in order to create
- products which were ideal for use in education.
-
- A Primary advisory panel was developed in 1989 to identify the strengths and
- weakness in both software and hardware. A team of independant Regional
- Education Consultants - all ex-teachers - started visiting schools to
- demonstrate hos the Commodore solutions could be used as teaching aids in
- the class room.
-
- The wide range of products and solutions offered by Commodore bridges the
- gap between industry, school and the home: MS-DOS PCs for business
- applications; Amiga computers for creative applications such as art and
- music; and CDTV, the TRUE multimedia machine. Peripherals such as special
- needs accesories, networks, training and on-going support are all part of
- the quality solutions Commodore is able to offer at cost-effective prices.
-
- Stephen Franklin
- Managing Director, Commodore Business Machines (UK) Ltd.
-
- --COMMODORE COMPUTERS-- CASE STUDIES
-
- Feltham Community School, MIDDX
-
- Feltham Community School identified a need for a computer that was easy
- enough for every one to operate and yet robust enough to survive over one
- thousand pupils passing througj in one school year. Tony Loughlin, head of
- business as the school said, "We asked ourselves a question - what do we
- want? What will do the best job?". The computer room now has 27 networked
- Amigas, led by Tony Loughlin, the students and teachers are encouraged to
- use Amigas and PCs across all curriculum areas, from geography to business
- studies. "An added benefit of the Amiga", said Tony Loughlin, "is that it
- is an affordable high street machine that many pupils have at home and are
- therefor able to do their homework on them and just bring the disk into
- school".
-
- Blake School, Bridgewater
-
- Mel Petty, IT coodinator at Blake School in Somerset had to meet certain
- requirements when searching for school computers. They needed to have good
- graphic capabilites, to be cost effective, user friendly and also available
- through highstreet dealers. The Commodore Amiga 500 computer fitted the
- bill. The effect in the classes at Blake School was immediate. Groups of
- pupils with mixed abilities were all comfortable with the machines, whilst
- pupils with reading and writing difficulties found a whole new mediium in
- which to express themselfves. Pupils could work at their own pace and share
- problems with each other and this encourages interactive communication
- skills. Used in art and design, the Amigas have helped each pupil with a
- range of cognitive skills and have accelarated the devlopment learning
- process. Mel believes the most important aspect is that the pupils use the
- Amiga as a tool, in much the same way as a paint brush, but they use it with
- much more of a discerning eye and with an ability to ease which knows no
- bounds.
-
- --COMMODORE COMPUTERS-- THE RANGE
-
- Amiga 500
- Motorola 68000 8Mhz processor, 1M RAM, 880K Internal Floppy Disk Drive,
- Serial, Parallel, Mouse, Joystick, Stereo Audio, RGB Analouge and digital
- and composite video ports plus peripheral Expransion port. Amiga DOS 1.3.
-
- Amiga 2000
- Motorola 68000, 8Mhz, 1M RAM, 880K Floppy Disk Drive, Serial, Parallel,
- Mouse, Joystick, Stereo Audio, RGB Analouge digital and composite video
- output, plus peripheral expansion port, AmigaDOS and 40M hard disk.
-
- Amiga 3000
- Motorola 68030 25 Mhz, 1M RAM, 880K Floppy drive serial, parallel, mouse,
- joystick, stereo audio, RGB analouge, digital and composite video ports,
- plus additional peripheral expansion ports. Amiga DOS 2.00 Available
- with 50M/100 M Hard Disk.
-
- CDTV
- As A500 with MIDI interface, infra red remote control and CD-ROM drive
- (660M).
-
- **Then there are lots of PCS - Mitch
-
- There then are a lot more pages covering CBM Amiga and PC software. I just
- though that this may interest some people.
-
- Mitch
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