A brief and cursory chronology of general events at the 
 Educational Technology Center, from roughly 1982 to 1991.
 from the perspective of A. Milne.

    - dialogues funded by FIPSE (Games of Inertia, etc.) moved to Rainbow
      with much review and revision.  DEC accepts delivery, but ETC never
      hear anything of them again.  

    - moved from Physical Science to the plaza level in ICS, 2 adjacent
      rooms.  One is essentially storage for incredible numbers of boxes
      and old gear, but conference table also put there.  Other is coding
      room.

    - main task now conversion of 10 dialogues of Scientific Reasoning
      series to IBM PC's, XT's and (don't laugh) PCjr's.  Now up to 
      p-System version IV.2-something, getting quite powerful and flexible,
      and faster than ever before.  With PCjr, ETC faces colour displays
      for first time.  Major new version of Ports allowing colour 
      specification.  Despite discontinuation of PCjr, the series is
      released to IBM, and IBM publishes.  ETC now have a
      complimentary set of published discs. 

    - while Milne is considering job direction, hear from Alfred new project 
      has started, using interactive videodisc in language teaching,
      and needs project manager soon.  After reflection and persuasion,
      Milne returns to ETC to manage prototype phase of Understanding
      Spoken Japanese.  Using Microsoft Pascal 4.0 and MS C, but primary
      development still in UCSD: faster, easier, more secure.

    - 10 independent prototype modules of USJ released on old Fujitsu micro
      (FM-16Beta) using powerful experimental video gear from Fujitsu
      labs, the "superimposer".  Grabs frames from videodisc (still or 
      running), shrinks them into dynamically-specified part of video buffer, 
      merges with CRT signal.  So now have new component of graphports: 
      video.  Is an advancement over InfoWindow.

    - all parties (and there are lots!) like prototype, but Fujitsu now
      runs market survey to see if superimposer should be marketed.
      After 2 or 3 months, answer: no.

    - ETC is surprised when USJ project administration decides to move
      implementation of phase 2 (prototype was phase 1) to another group.  
      We leave them to themselves.  Do not know if will ever hear of USJ
      again, but Milne remains at ETC in hopes of recovering it.

    - proposal to Annenberg foundation gets funded: very large pre-calculus
      math course.  People coming from all over for design of initial 
      year's material, one of 3 major subjects in the course.  Fran Antenore
      joins as project manager, Milne becomes programming manager.  
      p-System surviving, but DOS pressure increasing.

    - ETC is moved again as space demand in ICS worsens.  Now have 2 large
      wooden trailers across ring road from ICS; AI is in one, ETC and sundry 
      grads in other.  Major rebuilding to provide a coding lab.
      Annenberg design in full swing.  Looking for coders.  Borrowed IBM 
      gear still main machines, but buy a PS/2 model 80, and a couple of 
      Zenith 286's.  Tandy unexpectedly loans 3 4000's (386, 16MHz,
      70MB external disc each).   Want a UNIX workstation, but budget
      won't reach.

    - with Annenberg getting more and more difficult, ETC makes major 
      purchase: 10 ethernet cards and PC-NFS to run on them.  Milne's 
      main project is installation of ETC's first network, connected
      to ICS' main network.  Hello telnet and ftp.  ETC now has all 
      the terminals it could want.  Running DOS-hosted p-System lets single
      copy of virtual volume files on file server be mounted on any PC.
      No more multiple library copies, or software discs.

    - Annenberg running very low on funds, much debate about best usage.
      7 dialogues, 3-8 modules each, well along, but not releasable.
      Fran and Alastair at half-time, Steve F. much less and not charging 
      for that.

    - First explorations of Turbo Pascal 4.0 graphics, to support 
      PCVideo and Ports in Turbo.

    - Annenberg decides doesn't want to use course -- curriculum is too
      traditional.  Milne settles down to long, difficult archiving job.
      Fran leaves.  Milne at quarter time or less.

    - ETC hears again from Japanese course admin.  Displeased with Phase 2.
      On reviewing a copy, we agree.  ETC is to resume directing USJ
      for phase 3, hopes to implement it too.  Looking now at IBM PS/2's
      using new M-Motion video adapter.  Has problems, but is being 
      marketted.

    - Rika Yoshii joins as Japanese course project manager (Ph.D. in 
      AI with automatic Japanese-English translation system).  Designs
      for 10 modules of phase 3 beginner level created, with some 
      controversy.  ETC likely to get implementation job, but negotiation
      between UC and Japanese fail over project property rights.  External
      group who aren't really programmers start implementing in old 
      authoring system called TenCORE.

    - IBM wants version of Scientific Reasoning that runs on their 
      classroom network.  Contracts ETC to do major translation into
      Turbo Pascal on DOS.  ETC Library consolidated in Turbo Pascal,
      placed on network.  Because of Japanese project, takes almost 
      a year, but all 10 are adapted to Turbo Pascal, in colour on EGA
      and VGA, adjust automatically to screen resolution.  Monoprogram
      dialogue construction, discussed years ago, finally achieved
      (otherwise dialogue won't fit on one disc).  Also, Shapes is 
      included in Area, and Observation and Inference under Reflections;
      so all 12 SRS dialogues now released to IBM.

    - TenCORE can only drive InfoWindow, so powerful abilities of M-Motion
      unused, and major screen design effort required.  10 sessions at 
      videotape editing studio produce videotapes with fixed screen 
      arrangements for each module.  Coding schedule now 2 or 3 months
      behind.