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`This Week
`Software ,gift unlocks international 'Ivory Tower'
`Commodore donates 656 educational programs to public domain
`Commodore International has "un-
`organizations and foundations, as
`source Centers. Dealers and Resource
`locked the Ivory Tower" by donating
`well as private computerists, can ac-
`Centers will be encouraged to make
`cess the software. All of Commo-
`duplicate sets available free, or for the
`656 educational computer programs
`dore's 800 full-line U.S. computer
`cost of labor and materials.
`to the public domain.
`Meticulously catalogued and re-
`dealers will be supplied with a com-
`The ongoing software-development
`corded on 50 computer disks, the pro-
`plete set for a nominal distribution
`program represents an international
`charge of S250.
`effort of great size and scope. Those
`gram series will be disseminated
`Sets will also be made available to
`working on the project compiled more
`throughout the United States. Public
`Commodore's 250 Education Re-
`than 1000 original programs. The pro-
`and private educational institutions,
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`grams were designed by educators for •
`use in their own classes and contrib- •
`uted by universities, public-school I
`systems, private educational institu- -
`tions, user clubs and Commodore staff I
`from around the world.
`The best of the programs submitted I
`were standardized, categorized and I
`recorded on disks. Each program was
`adapted to run on any of the Comma •
`dare microcomputers currently in use
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`The size, of course, is a dead giveaway.
`But don't let the size fool you. The HX-20
`is not a toy. Or a glorified calculator.
`It's a computer.
`A real computer, with 16K RAM
`(optionally expandable to 32K), and 32K
`ROM (optionally expandable to 64K),
`RS-232C and serial interfaces, a full-size
`ASCII keyboard, a built-in printer, a
`scrollable LCD screen, and sound gen-
`eration. It uses a full, extended version
`of Microsoft BASIC, and has time and
`date string functions. A microcassette
`and ROM cartridge are available as
`options.
`Viva la difference!
`In fact, the only differences between the
`Epson HX-20 and a run-of-the-mill
`desktop computer are:
`1) The HX-20 is small enough to fit
`inside your briefcase;
`2) It'll run on an internal power supply
`for 50-plus hours, and fully recharge
`in less than eight;
`3) It gives you ten separate program
`functions at the punch of a button;
`4) It lets you interface with peripherals
`like MX Series printers for corres-
`pondence quality output, the CX-20
`Acoustic Coupler for remote com-
`munications, a barcode reader for
`inventory control, and an audio
`cassette for loading and saving
`pr. aces;
`5) It lets you shut the whole unit off
`while preserving all programs in
`RAM; and, last, but far from least,
`6) It costs roughly half as much as a
`standard desktop.
`That ought to be enough to fire your
`imagination. But there's more.
`The perfect traveling companion.
`With the Epson HX-20 and the optional
`RAM expansion, you'll be able to com-
`pute —actually write and manipulate
`programs with a 6301 microprocessor —
`just about anywhere. Because its nickel-
`cadmium batteries and a low-power, all-
`CMOS memory keep the HX-20 running
`for over 50 hours. And when you get back
`to the office, you can dump everything
`you've done into your main system. And
`even if you shut the HX-20 off, a low-
`voltage system maintains all programs
`you have in RAM.
`Little screen, big picture.
`The HX-20's unique virtual screen is the
`ultimate answer to the question, "How
`do you get a big screen in a small space?"
`You just show part of it at a time.
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`in schools, including the CBM, the
`PET, the SuperPET and the Commo-
`dore 64.
`"Computers have revolutionized
`education on a truly global scale," said
`Jack Tramiel, Commodore's founder
`and chief executive. "Not only have
`they proven to be a highly inventive, ef-
`fective and engaging tool for teaching
`the traditional disciplines, they are
`providing students with what will be
`the most important skill they'll need to
`advance
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`our
`technical
`age . . . computing.
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`"Commodore is committed to pro-
`viding the international network for
`identifying and accessing superior
`programming. We are essentially un-
`locking the Ivory Tower. Why dupli-
`cate effort —the incalculable man-
`hours that went into creating the
`programs—when you can simply du-
`plicate the programs and introduce
`them into the public domain?"
`The laborious task of preparing the
`first 656 cataloged programs was
`achieved through the cooperative ef-
`forts of Commodore and many educa-
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`tional organizations, particularly in
`Canada.
`The project was seeded in the sum-
`mer of 1981 with an Ontario, Canada,
`government grant to several promi-
`nent educators to create a repository
`of educational software, employing
`high-school students. Commodore's
`Canadian company, already working
`on a similar project, suggested they
`pool their resources. The actual work
`began the following summer.
`Throughout last summer, 100 pro-
`grammers from over 30 public-school
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`districts spent eight hours a day stan-
`dardizing the raw programs. The stan-
`then
`dardized programs were
`submitted to Commodore for a final
`accuracy check and for conversion to
`run on all the Commodore machines,
`including the new Commodore 64.
`The software will receive widest dis-
`tribution in the United States, Canada
`and Britain, because the BASIC pro-
`grams are written in English, but Com-
`modore will furnish sets to all of its
`international offices.
`"It's the ripple effect," Tramiel ob-
`served. "Each program is being cast
`into the international informational
`network, and that's bound to make
`waves. It is conceivable that the efforts
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`Opbonal Microcassvtle
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`HX-20
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`So with the HX-20, you can do pro-
`gramming, word processing and data
`entry just like you've got a big screen,
`up to 255 characters wide, with any 20
`column by four line part of it visible by
`user command. Not only will the screen
`give you easy-to-read upper and lower
`case letters, numbers, punctuation
`and graphics, the viewing angle can
`be changed to make it easy to see,
`almost no matter what angle you're
`viewing from.
`Built in hardcopies.
`The HX-20's built-in 24 column dot matrix
`impact microprinter hands it to you at
`42 LPM, in a crisp, precise 5x7 matrix. It
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`you a pint-sized sales chart, a cartridge
`ribbon and a full upper and lower case
`ASCII character set. And enough inter-
`national symbols to print most Western
`languages.
`Epson makes more and better printers
`than anyone else in the world. Need we
`say more?
`The best is yet to come.
`When you hold an HX-20 in your hand,
`you're not only holding a lot of capacity,
`you're holding a lot of expansion.
`There's a standard cassette interface,
`a cartridge interface, the RS-232C and
`serial interfaces, and a system bus that
`lets you expand RAM and ROM capa-
`bilities. There's even a floppy disc drive
`for maxi capacity in a mini package.
`The Epson edge.
`Surprised that a computer like the HX-20
`should come from Epson? You shouldn't
`be. Because we've been building com-
`puters in Japan since 1978. And we've
`- . been practicing ultra-high-quality
` precision manufacturing for a lot
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`than that.. ' longer
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`We didn't jump right into the American
`microcomputer market. We could afford
`to bide our time; to wait for the product
`that was going to stand America on its ear.
`This is it.
`The Epson HX-20.
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`November 22, 1982
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`Dr. Senese (left), assistant secretary of
`the U.S. Department of Education, with
`Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore
`International and children of the
`United Nations International School,
`try out a Commodore computer.
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`of an American educator will soon be
`teaching New Guinea students their
`multiplication tables."
`The 656 programs cover most sub-
`ject categories. Each is identified by a
`topic, grade level, quality and degree
`of student/teacher participation. In
`addition to the educational programs,
`there are 13 administrative aids for
`grading, attendance and statistical
`analysis; 13 computer utility exercises;
`and 83 games.
`The 13 catalog classifications in-
`clude administration, business, com-
`puter science, English, French, games,
`geography, history, mathematics, sci-
`ence, technology, computer utiliza-
`tion and a miscellaneous category.
`There are programs for pre-
`schoolers to university graduates,
`hobbyists to master computerists, stu-
`dents to educators. "If we've left
`anyone out, we'll catch them with the
`next 600 programs being worked on!"
`quipped Tramiel, adding that the
`company plans to expand its public-
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