The History of Lysator - (original) (raw)

It happens once or twice each year that newspapers and magazines mention Lysator. Sometimes we have also been on national television. You can read more about

1995, Ny Teknik, issue #11-1995

"Gammal är äldst i sajt-SM". Lysator won Ny Teknik's contest for Swedish WWW sites.

8 Aug 1994, Aktuellt, at 9 pm

Swedish TV news team Aktuellt visited Lysator on 29 July 1994. This resulted in our web feature that was made available the same day, and a TV news item that was broadcast on 8 Aug.

The Lys-16 microcomputer was designed and built during the 1970s by members of Lysator in close cooperation with one of the departments at the university (ISY). The computer's 16-bit word size made it advanced for its time.

Until somebody decides to write a better presentation here, you have to rely on Mikael Pääbo's article in GARB (in Swedish), the Lys-16 notices in the timeline and the scanned images in the Lys-16 Image Archive.