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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The origins of Norsk Data go back to the development of digital computers at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment at Kjeller , Norway , where several early computers had been designed, such as the ''SAM'' and the ''SAM 2'' aka ''FLINK''. The success of this program resulted in the founding of ''A/S Nordata - Norsk Data Elektronikk'' on August 8 , 1967 by Lars Monrad Krohn , Per Bjørge and Rolf Skår . The company became a significant supplier of minicomputers to many research projects, in particular to CERN in Geneva , Switzerland , where they were chosen to produce the computers for their Nuclear Accelerator Project. The other market segments Norsk Data succeeded in were Norwegian Municipal Administration Data Center s, newspapers, as well as parts of the educational and university sector. After a long period of great success, the Norsk Data "empire" collapsed in the early 1990s, mostly due to not realizing the impact of the PC revolution (as well as the growing competition from UNIX -based Workstation s). Norsk Data technology was continued by Dolphin . HARDWARE Significant Norsk Data computer models include:
SOFTWARE In addition to hardware, Norsk Data also produced a wide range of system and application software:
When ND discontiued NOTIS development in 1989, it was continued by NOTIS AS, which later changed its name to Maxware A point of note: the World Wide Web originated when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the Enquire program on a SINTRAN III mini at CERN . EXTERNAL LINKS
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