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~~1 Council for Educational Teclmology
~; Coulter Electronics. Inc.
GEI'tERAL OFFICE" 590 WEST 20111 STREET "1fIALEAH. Fl33010 •. ~HONE: 30H85-0131
.. Devonshift Street, London W'lN 2-BA T.,...,: 01·'636 4186 Ch4inn4,.: P_rofessor J C -West, CBE Di,"wr: G Hubbard
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3rd December 1981
Pear Hick
CET TQ.ESOFnlARE ·PROJECT
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Thank you for your letter of 19th November.
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The Burl ei gh Centre
Wellfield Road
HATFlfLD
Herts. AlIO OBZ
Tel: Jlatfield 74497
I am sorry I hav.e not replied
Although all our current progralllS are in BASIC, our fonnat was i.ntended to
be independent of language. We would like to distribute programs in other
languages, including PASCAl, but on looking into the question, there appear
to be a few problems which need to be sorted out first.
Firstly, therea.re a few character.s us.ed in PASCAl not covered by our format
recQIIIIIlefldations. I hope you have now recei ved your copy of the
recOflJIIendations ilnd we would, ,of course, be interested in any cQlIIJlents fram
membersafPtlG.
Secondly. as you 'know, ,our telesoftwaresystem at present is only available
for ,use with the 380Z. Although PASCAl can be obtained for the 380Z, it
wHl \onl, 'worJr on 5'1( full disc machines with8{) character display.
Thi.rdly,it awears that very few Computer Assisted tearning programs have
so far 'been written i.nPASCAl.
In view of these problems, it is Ijkely that in the immediate future only a
few people _ldbe able to obtain PASCAL by ,t+lesoftware and find it useful.
I therefore dp not thin~PASCAl can be.one of our first priorities,and we
'\iIOuld ,not N \?I'Cl SHE.TA,qA(2)T/2'''-,
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