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12/1/1984 |
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Unisys
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Original Retail Price:
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$2,500.00
$5,246.78*
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The Icon was a computer system used in the schools of Ontario, Canada in the mid 1980's. It ran the QNX operating system and used a file server. This machine is important for historical reasons for personal computers in general but more specifically for Canada as well.
It turns out that Northwest Fur Trader, one of the more popular educational titles for the system was written by one of our volunteers!.
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This computer is currently interactive in the Museum. |
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Maury Markowitz on Sunday, April 14, 2013
I recall one of the most popular displays at the Science Center during the 1980s was a forest fire simulation. I believe this *may* have been running on the PDP-11, but that machine was not particularly powerful so I'm not sure if that was the host.
So, does anyone know this program? And was it ever ported to the ICON? It seems the ICON would have been the perfect platform for it.
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Roy Goostrey on Friday, March 01, 2013
We were one of the first school in Ontario to work with the prototype.
The drafting department field tested the CAD Tutor software.
I subsequently wrote a book, published my MaGraw Hill, entitled "Step by step through the CAD Tutor" Would you like a copy of the book to go with the computer?
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Gerold on Monday, December 10, 2012
Man o Man the memories with that trackball. I can still hear it spinning like its gonna fly right out of the keyboard. And that bloody net kept breaking in offshore fishing when trying to get those crabs and lobsters. I really really need to play those games again. Please make an emulator for them!!! GREAT WEBSITE. I wanna visit you guys some time.
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Scott Bennett on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Found out from wiki that the animated paint program I mentioned was called: IPaint Ergonomics Lab @ University of Toronto:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPaint
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Lonemonk on Friday, November 02, 2012
In the mid-80's our computer lab had I think a full compliment (16 terminals to 1 Lexicon). My favourite program was a line drawing program that you could animate, by deleting some bits of the picture and redrawing them (Sort of like Line Rider today). Myself and other students spent hours making these ersatz animations using this technique. I'd love to know the name of the application, and whether that was built-in or something developed locally.
Line Rider: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Rider
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