Origin
The game was used widely in schools throughout the United Kingdom in the 1980s and was one of first examples of British educational software designed specifically for schools. HUMMEC was the educational support centre of the then local education authorities of Humberside. Humberside was part of a consortium of LEAs (the others being Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and, for a time, Wakefield) which established a regional support centre called RESOURCE, based in Doncaster.
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