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From: sean@garfield.UUCP (Sean Byrne)
Newsgroups: net.cse,net.wanted,net.micro
Subject: A survey of Micros for CAI.
Message-ID: <616@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 00:47:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.616
Posted: Sat Oct  8 00:47:06 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 10:11:50 EDT
Organization: Memorial Univ. of Nfld., St. John's, Canada
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	I would like information of micros available to do
CAI.  Are there any established microsystems that are proven
to work with a large course content using CAI?

The Questions:
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  1) Name and Manufacturer.
  2) Cost of a) 1  b) 25
  3) Floppy disk: a) included or not  b) price  c) size   d) controller
3.1) Hard Disk: a) price  b) size  b) controller
  4) Shared resources hardware & software available.
  5) Memory (RAM) - Maximum Memory.
  6) Version of Basic.  Microsoft, whatever.
  7) Authoring Languages: PILOT, DECAL, etc.
  8) Languages:  basic, pascal, fortran, 
  9) Processor (for compatibility):
 10) Operating System: OS-9, CP/M, XENIX, Unix-look alikes.
 11) Reliability:  Does it last?
 12) Service: Intelligence of service people and response time.

	What authoring languages are there?  And what micros are
supported?  I need to know about shared resources hardware and
software for micros in general.  I know about TRS-80 Network
Controller and Commodore's MUPET and IBM's PC-NET.  Also,
a hard disk is a must considering the size of the course offered.
I would appreciate any and all information anyone could
give me.  

	Comme d'habitude, I will summarize and post to the net.

PS.	Everything is a trademark of everything thats not a 
	trademark of everything else.

Please send all info/requests/thermonuclear detonations by mail to:

-- 
				Sean Byrne
				{allegra, ihnp4, utcsrgv}!garfield!sean