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The '''Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium''' (later '''Corporation'''), most commonly known as '''MECC''', was a state-funded company founded in [[1973]]. The goal of the organization was to create educational [[computer program]]s, primarily for use in [[library|libraries]] and [[public school]]s. During its lifetime, the company produced a number of programs that have become well-known to [[United States|American]] [[generation X]] and [[generation Y|Y]] students, such as ''[[The Oregon Trail (computer game)|The Oregon Trail]]'', ''[[Odell Lake (computer game)|Odell Lake]]'', ''[[Number Munchers]]'', ''[[Lemonade Stand]]'', ''[[Spellevator]]'', ''[[Storybook Weaver]]'' and ''[[DinoPark Tycoon]]''.

The state of [[Minnesota]] spun off the company as a private corporation in the late [[1980s]]. It was bought by a venture capitalist for $5 million, who sold it less than a year later to [[The Learning Company]] for $250 million.