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Re: IBM compatibility

#1929
From: Lowell Herr
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 12:53
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>                I read recent physhare threads about Interactive Physics and
> CDROM, but nowhere did I hear the IBM platforms mentioned.  Our
> district will absolutely not purchase Macs.  I hope some folks
> who use PCs can give us advice.

Interactive Physics is now available for the IBM platforms.  I saw it at
the summer AAPT meeting and it looks identical.  In fact most of the code
was transported from the Mac to MS-DOS since it was written in C+ or C++
if I recall.
>                First of all are CDROMs compatible between PCs and Macs?  I
> read about folks using the CD-ROM Physics Toolkit, presumably for
> Macs- is the toolkit available for PCs also?  If not, can anyone
> point me to good CD-ROMs for chem a/o physics?
>
Toolbook is an MS-DOS program and is the backbone for CUPLE - also written
form IBM's.  I don't think there is a problem getting equivalent material
on CDROM for IBM's.

   Secondly, is the Interactive Physics series available for
> PCs?  I know that Wings (Sunburst) does the Physics Explorer
> series- is it available for PCs, and is it worth the money?  The
> other company I read about is Knowledge Revolution- do they sell
> Interactive Physics, and, again, is there an IBM version?

My information (second hand) is that Wings is not worth the dollars.
Knowledge Revolution now has Interactive Physics available for IBM's - as
mentioned above.

Lowell
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