Atari Educational System: #

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Atari Educational System CXL 4001 - 1

Atari Educational System CXL 4001 - 2

Atari Educational System Master Cartridge CXL4001

Atari Educational System Master Cartridge CXL4001 at Startup (C) Copyright Atari 1979

Dorsett 'Talk and Teach System' (C) Copyright 1983 by Dorsett Educational Systems, Inc.

Overview of the Atari Educational System Programs

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edu.zip size: 25 KB

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• Atari Educational System-Talk & Teach-Cassette Courseware Catalog.pdf
• Atarimuseum.com
• Atarisource.com
• A library for encoding cassette tapes in the Atari Educational System (AKA Dorsett) format

Very important:#

AtariWiki highly recommends the findings of tschak909 from AtariAge. Please take a look, what he has found:

Disassembling the Educational System Master Cartridge

EduEncode - a library for encoding Atari Educational System tapes!

Complete list of the Atari Educational System Lesson Cassettes: 16 courses were made, each one has 4 cassettes! Auto Mechanics CX6013 was announced, but not published. Thanks to Michael Current, Kay Savetz and Thomas Cherryhomes, we can offer a solution for this, please see below. General hint: If you discover problems with reading of the files, please reset the Atari and leave the position of the cassette reader unchanged. Try again, until you hear a high frequency sound or discover it works. In Altirra F2-key for START and F5-key for RESET.#

U.S. History CX6001 ; donated by Tempest from AtariAge. Thank you so much! :-) We really appreciate your help for all. ; further thanks to Bill Lange for restoring the 1st part, which made the package complete! Thank you so much Bill. Please go ahead. :-)
U.S. Government CX6002 ; donated by someone who would not like to be mentioned. ; Cassette A-Side 2 is from FULS from AtariAge. Thank you for your help to complete this package. We really appreciate that. :-)
Supervisory Skills CX6003 ; donated by someone who would not like to be mentioned.
World History (Western) CX6004 ; donated by Tempest from AtariAge. Thank you so much! :-) We really appreciate your help for all.
Basic Sociology CX6005 ; thank you Bill Lange for providing this treasure to the Atari community. We really owe you very much!
Counseling Procedures CX6006 ; donated by Tempest from AtariAge. Thank you so much! :-) We really appreciate your help for all.
Principles of Accounting CX6007 ; from Atarimania, thank you so much!
Physics CX6008 ; from Atarimania, thank you so much!
Great Classics CX6009 ; from Kay Savetz; Kay, thank you so much to bring this artifact from the dark to the light! We really appreciate your help!
Business Communications CX6010 ; donated by someone who would not like to be mentioned. ; Cassette D is from bob1200xl from AtariAge and the recording was done by Allan Bushman. The community is so lucky you brought us the last piece of the puzzle. Thank you so much. You will never be forgotten.
Basic Psychology CX6011 ; thank you Bill Lange and Allan Bushman for providing this treasure to the Atari community. We really owe you very much!
Effective Writing CX6012 ; donated by by Tempest from AtariAge. Thank you so much! :-) We really appreciate your help for all.
Auto Mechanics CX6013 ; never shipped according to Michael Current from the Atari FAQ. But Kay would not be Kay, if he can't find even a solution for that! Even more, all(!) Dorsett tapes are meanwhile digitized and saved for generations to come. Thanks to Michael Current, Kay Savetz and Thomas Cherryhomes, we can't thank you enough for restoring the 1st generation of e-learning.
Principles of Economics CX6014 ; donated by Tempest from AtariAge. Thank you so much! :-) We really appreciate your help for all.
Spelling CX6015 ; donated by someone who would not like to be mentioned.
Basic Electricity CX6016 ; donated by Allan Bushman. Allan, thousand thanks from the Atari community for your outstanding help! :-)
Basic Algebra CX6017 ; donated by someone who would not like to be mentioned.

Lloyd G. Dorsett, the founder, has proven, that the Atari can do much more than just playing games. He was so much ahead of his time. Indeed, with his work, we face the 1st generation of e-learning with over 1,000 (!) programs. He made 64 courses with 8 hours duration. Atari just released 16 courses, but had an option for much more! If someone has the source code of the cartridge and can provide it to us, so we can see, how the data was read in from the cassettes, we would be very, very lucky. :-) Further, if someone has the missing 48 courses or even just informations about them, we would be very happy, too. Please see an advertisement from Popular Science, January 1983, page 99 (thank you so much tschak909 from AtariAge for giving us the information):

Popular Science, January 1983, page 99

Examples: #

Basic Electricity CX6016

Counseling Procedures CX6006

U.S. History CX6001, Business Communications CX6010, Basic Psychology CX6011
World History (Western) CX6004, Spelling CX6015, U.S. Government CX6002

Basic Algebra CX6017, Effective Writing CX6012

Basic Electricity CX6016, U.S. Government CX6002, Great Classics CX6009 and others ; thank you Kay Savetz for giving us the pictures. :-)

Business Communications CX6010-Principles of Accounting CX6007

Outlook:#

So you think you now have the complete Atari Educational System program? Think again:


The 'remaining' ones from the Dorsett Educational System program for the Atari. The NeverEnding Story is a fantasy film, but The NeverEnding: "Thank you Kay Savetz" is for real! Kay, if there is an Atari walk of fame, be sure, you deserve a star under the top 10 there!