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- /* Written 7:56 am Mar 25, 1988 by kef+@andrew.cmu.edu in uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.binaries.mac */
- /* ---------- "HyperCard ICEC-Ware Catalog (part 1" ---------- */
- [HyperCard ICEC-Ware Catalog - part 1 of 6]
-
- This HyperCard stack (public domain) contains "catalog" information on
- **ICEC-Ware**. In brief, ICEC-Ware (a project of the Inter-university
- Consortium for Educational Computing) is a CATALOGING/DISTRIBUTION
- ACTIVITY FOR EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE THAT RUNS ON HIGH-FUNCTION (e.g.
- Unix) WORKSTATIONS. [See material below between #####'s for more
- information on ICEC-Ware. The stack, itself, contains more information
- on ICEC and on how to obtain the ICEC-Ware tape.]
-
- This HyperCard stack is much more than a linear listing of entries that
- appeared in the printed ICEC-Ware Catalog. "Top-level" choices allow
- viewing of entries by type of use (e.g. tutorial, simulation), by
- discipline, or by "system" (e.g. X.10 windowing environment, Andrew
- window manager, Mac). When one of these is selected, a list of titles
- with that attribute is shown and then one can move to the card with
- full information on the entry. Each entry has a "hypertext" type of
- feature: clicking on one of the several attributes that describe that
- entry allows one to see a listing of all titles that share that
- attribute.
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- One of the objectives of ICEC (the Inter-university Consortium for
- Educational Computing) is development and use of advanced educational
- software for high-function personal workstations (e.g. Unix-based
- workstations as well as powerful microcomputers with a "mouse" user
- interface & bit-mapped graphics).
-
- ICEC-Ware consists of (a) a catalog of such programs and (b) a
- collection of a subset of the programs in the catalog. The First
- Edition of ICEC-Ware has a small sample of such programs (18). The
- "First Edition collection" (it is available for distribution with the
- catalog -- see policy statement in the stack) consists of software for
- certain Unix workstations running either the X.10 windowing system or
- the Andrew system. We plan to broaden this substantially by exploring
- other distribution policies and by engaging in distribution for other
- machine/operating-system environments in future editions of ICEC-Ware.
-
- To date (prior to this HyperCard version), the "parts" of the ICEC-Ware
- Catalog were: (1) a printed catalog and (2) an on-line catalog program
- giving access, on Unix workstations, to the catalog database (that
- program is included with the "collection" tape).
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