ATARILAB Starter Set with Temperature Module Plus Lab Light Kit.

Both Cartridges with Interface, extensive manuals and Temperature probe and Light Probe and sender. New both in the box(NIB). Atari 400/800/XL/XE.

New breakthrough in science learning

by CHARLES JACKSON
Antic Staff Writer

"Good morning, class.  Sit down at your lab stations, open your books to page 28, and put the Temperature cartridge into your Atari computers.  Today, we'll calculate the dew point temperature.  Can anybody tell me what 'dew point' means?"
   Scenes like these are becoming more common in today's schoolrooms.  Atari Learning System's new AtariLab educational software incorporating laboratory instruments is taking its place in junior high and high school science classes across the nation.
   AtariLab developers Priscilla W Laws, Ph.D. said "Young students are often uninterested in science because they're only asked to read about it.  Rarely are they given an opportunity to perform experiments." Laws, Chairperson of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Dickenson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, believes that science can best be learned through doing. 

INVITING EXPERIMENTS
AtariLab stations invite experimentation.  They are easy to install, simple to use, and accept either joystick or keyboard input.  Data sets are displayed on four-color graphs, and results can be seen quickly.
   The AtariLab Starter Set ($89.95) helps students explore principles of temperature and heat energy.  It contains a hand-held electric temperature sensor, a standard alcohol bulb thermometer, a 16K program cartridge, a 144-page manual, and the AtariLab interface box which connects the sensor to Port 2. The interface box is used with every AtariLab module, but only comes with the Starter Set.
   When running, the Temperature Module turns your Atari into a colorful recording thermometer capable of measuring temperatures between - 5 and 45 degrees Celsius (23-113 degrees Fahrenheit).  It records the temperature over time periods from 10 seconds to 24 hours.  As temperature readings are taken, they are plotted on the screen in full color.  Data also may be stored on disk or sent to a printer. 

The addition of the light module sold in a separate auction, will allow experiments involving the measurement and absorption of light. 

Cartridges come with both the Temperature and Light modules but are not required. The manuals give you easy to use instructions for writing your own programs in whatever language you want. You can also use a second module with XL/XE computers and up to 4 modules with 400/800 computers.

This means with an Atari 400 you can monitor 8 temperatures at once.

Also the module provides limited 5 volt external power to use as needed, has 2 bi directional digital ports and 2 high speed trigger inputs.

Also includes the complete Light Kit.

 Estimated shipping weight is 5 pounds.