20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
4:59 a.m.
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:44 +0200, Rico Pajarola wrote:
As for the OS Tim Berners-Lee used for his first
Browser, I believe that
it was made on a Norsk Data Technostation.
I doubt that, for the reasons I posted
to the list.
There is very few information
available on these machines, and I don't think there is an emulator for
them.
I'm working on one, little by little. But I have pretty much zero docs
on the ND-500(0) side of the things, as well as the interface between
the ND-100 and ND-500(0) processors.
There are only a few webpages mentioning it at all:
see
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~toresbe/nd/history.html for example (it has a
picture of the machine, note the funny terminal with the two LCD's in
addition to the monitor).
I believe they were plasma screens, and emulated a pair
of standard
TDV-22xx serial terminals (the OS did AFAIK not support the huge
framebuffer natively).
The writer of the original version in Norwegian has all parts of the
Technostation apart from the giant desk.
I recently donated my Technostation to a
computer museum...
Which museum? Did you include the funny desk? Was it running
when you
gave it up? What software did it run?
I personally have a ND-5700 computer, and would of course *kill* for
ENQUIRE. :)
http://toresbe.at.ifi.uio.no/technostation.jpeg offers a more detailed
view of the console. The article is in Norwegian, about the machine
winning a design award.
-toresbe :)
