Birds of Antarctica disk and updated Manual for the Microbee

[ChickenMan]

From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was an original Birds of Antarctica manual and disk. Our current manual in the Repository originated from a photocopy version and was minus front & back covers and all the pictures were of poor quality. The pictures have been replaced with 600dpi quality scans and front and back covers added. The sized of the manual is an odd size, about 1/2 way between A4 & A5 and is 93 pages long. Contents of the manual is

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                          CONTENTS
FOREWORD                                                     3
INTRODUCTION                                                 4
SECTION I ANTARCTICA AND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN —
  A RESOURCE GUIDE                                           6
  Introduction                                               6
  Climate                                                    7
  The Antarctic Marine Ecosystem                            10
  The Seabirds of Antarctica                                13
  Man in Antarctica                                         23
  Antarctica as a location for Scientific Research          25
SECTION II COLLECTION OF THE DATA                           29
SECTION III STRUCTURE OF THE DATA BASE                      32
SECTION IV RETRIEVING THE INFORMATION                       37
SECTION V STUDENT ACTIVITIES                                46
SECTION VI ANSWER KEY                                       66
SECTION VII FURTHER INFORMATION                             73
  Queensland                                                73
  New South Wales                                           73
  Victoria                                                  74
  South Australia                                           75
  Western Australia                                         75
  Tasmania                                                  76
  Australian Capital Territory                              76
  Northern Territory                                        77
APPENDIX I SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF BIRDS, AVERAGE WING SPAN AND
  OVERALL LENGTH                                            78
APPENDIX II ADDITIONAL RESOURCES                            79
APPENDIX III GLOSSARY                                       82
APPENDIX IV SOME IDEAS FOR INTRODUCING THE ANTARCTIC
  SCIENCE DATA BASE                                         83
APPENDIX V GUIDE TO LEGAL VALUES FOR CODED AND
  SCALED FIELDS                                             84
BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                86

The Birds of Antarctica was produced by the National Information Technology Committee and the Elizabeth Computer Centre as an activity of Information Technology Month in 1984.

The package has the specific aim of demonstrating the use of a database to
high school students in order that they gain a greater understanding of
how information technology can be applied. Moreover, the chosen application,
putting up data relating to the Antarctic, opens up new concepts. Not only
does it provide data for research, but it also demonstrates a real life
application of computers.

Tucked in the back of the manual was a pouch containing an original 5.25" Microbee disk that was produced by the Department of Education of Western Australia. An attempted was made to image it but the disk was too damaged and unable to get a clean image, although some of the files were recoverable. Going through the rest of the floppy disk collection I found 2 other original disks, one of which imaged 100% error free. So this disk complements the 3.5" disk we already have in the Repository but files look identical. The disk label was also scanned.

So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Education folder we placed

birds_of_antarctica_ds40.dsk

birds_of_antarctica_users_manual.pdf <-- updated and in the Documentation\Manuals\Education folder

birds_of_antarctica.jpg <-- in the Documentation\Pictures\Disks\5.25_inch folder