Science Toolkit by Broderbund

[Tenacious]

I found reference to this today.  I looks like a very cool educational package for Apple II during the mid 1980s.  

It seems to basically be a software package, for timing and data logging,  and a hardware interface through the joystick port.

There are several reviews here:  http://www.elisoftware.org/index.php?title=Science_Toolkit_Module_2:_Earthquake_Lab_%28Apple_II,_5_1/4%22_Disk%29_Broderbund_Software_-_1986_USA,_Canada_Release

and here:  http://www.elisoftware.org/index.php?title=Science_Toolkit_Master_Module_%28Apple_II,_5_1/4%22_Disk%29_Broderbund_Software_-_1985_USA,_Canada_Release

I love stuff like this.  Sadly, it appears to have been an Apple II only product.

[Tenacious]

Yes, I don't know what grips me so much about this concept.  Maybe because I'm old enough to remember the world without personnal computers.  Before PCs, computers were always portrayed in TV, movies, and fiction as instruments of scientific research.  That was a major role until the 1980s.   Since most of the world are not researchers, the launchers of the computer revolution must have realized that they needed a different killer app.  

I haven't had a chance to load them into an Amiga yet, but, the TestGear packages on Aminet look very promising.   Does anyone use or have experience with these.