20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
12:18 p.m.
Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
maybe the word browser is not really correct, it's ENQUIRE that I
meant,
which is the great-grandfather of that browser.
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. 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).
that's what I understood, the monitor was not really
"part" of the
computer, more like an external device controlled by it.
Which museum? Did you include the funny desk? Was it
running when you
gave it up? What software did it run?
http://www.bolo.ch/
And yes, it included the funny desk (altough the wooden "arms" were
broken off). It seemed complete (SCSI, CPU, 16MB RAM, 3-board Ethernet
etc. was all there, even a spare powersupply, only the front plate was
apparently missing), but it was halfways disassembled, and lacking any
software or other knowledge and time to investigate, I never dared to
turn it on.
It's a shame to let such a machine rot in storage, the museum is a much
better place for that machine, and it's not as if it's "gone" now, I
can
visit it even more often than when I had it in storage ;)
I personally have a ND-5700 computer, and would of
course *kill* for
ENQUIRE. :)
so would I...
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.
yeah, that's it, although my machine looked smaller
(half as wide)
regards
--rp
