03-06-2024, 12:13 PM
I got an answer back from Ian Gribble -
I was part of the original Microfusion development team and the library system was originally developed in PICK under an Australian maths professor; programmed by John Smith and myself.
It was primarily developed on the BBC micro; however we had some customers who already had Microbee hardware, so we adapted the system to support the hardware. The Microfusion Library was very powerful as we adapted some of the PICK phonemes to be able to better handle indefinite speech patterns to allow better, easier searching by voice. The system was aimed primarily at school and local councils and was successful; however, the DYNIX Library System (also PICK based) was backed by the SA govt at the time and eventually took this market.
We used the BBC Microcomputer or the TORCH (twin 6502 processor version of the BBC) as a server primarily, and the Microbee where required.
I have included an old (1990)paper by Laurel A. Clyde for interest - heavy reading but mention Microfusion on Page 6 and give a general history of basin information development in relation to libraries.
https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3...2262942208
I was part of the original Microfusion development team and the library system was originally developed in PICK under an Australian maths professor; programmed by John Smith and myself.
It was primarily developed on the BBC micro; however we had some customers who already had Microbee hardware, so we adapted the system to support the hardware. The Microfusion Library was very powerful as we adapted some of the PICK phonemes to be able to better handle indefinite speech patterns to allow better, easier searching by voice. The system was aimed primarily at school and local councils and was successful; however, the DYNIX Library System (also PICK based) was backed by the SA govt at the time and eventually took this market.
We used the BBC Microcomputer or the TORCH (twin 6502 processor version of the BBC) as a server primarily, and the Microbee where required.
I have included an old (1990)paper by Laurel A. Clyde for interest - heavy reading but mention Microfusion on Page 6 and give a general history of basin information development in relation to libraries.
https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3...2262942208
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