From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rp@servium.ch (Rico Pajarola) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:18:12 +0200 Subject: [pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix In-Reply-To: <1145487590.3928.42.camel@fortran.babel> References: <4445F855.2060402@servium.ch> <1145487590.3928.42.camel@fortran.babel> Message-ID: <444727A4.1080401@servium.ch> Tore S Bekkedal 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. maybe the word browser is not really correct, it's ENQUIRE that I meant, which is the great-grandfather of that browser. > 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