The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to almost all schools in the state of Minnesota; however, its software eventually became popular in schools throughout the entire United States
When it was created many schools were independently investigating uses of computers. MECC was c...
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The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to almost all schools in the state of Minnesota; however, its software eventually became popular in schools throughout the entire United States
When it was created many schools were independently investigating uses of computers. MECC was created by the state legislature as a pseudo state agency, which was given the task to study and coordinate computer use in schools for both administrative and educational purposes. Schools had to get MECC's approval for most computing expenses. There were some existing services for school's administrative tasks. After study of educational needs, a single educational computer center was recommended for use by schools which did not already have facilities (the University of Minnesota's MERITSS computer provided time-sharing services to its...
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