NABU PC - My summary - Info & Resourses (Updated)

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What Is NABU? (Natural Access to Bi-directional Utilities)

A personal home computer was released to consumers in 1982 to connect families and businesses on a worldwide network.

Founded in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982, families and schools used cable TV modems to connect NABU PCs to a country-wide network. In addition to standard PC capabilities, the NABU computer could download software and information content through the cable feed. Applications included games, programming languages, and news.

Taken from the new site: NABU PC Retro Net

May I suggest this is a good place to start - don't be put off by many of the negative and flippant youtube articles you may have seen!

The home of The NABU Network is here.

Good Video (youtube) starting point:

The Retro Hack Shack

Best youtube for the story so far and ongoing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT_tjSHIQ3lGJR_zOqh9gGeHzykR0spq

More to come! The MAME emulator is working a treat!


We welcome all NABU users (and interested retro users) in Australia to join in the fun!

Links:

The NABU RetroNet

The NABU Forum

NABU MAME

Essential Tools "An Adaptor" to get you connected!

NABUNetSim works a treat for a headless option

The NABU (New) on discord!

The NABU (Old) on discord!

* Updated 10/6/2024 to reflect recent developments in the community.

 

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Running MAME NABU Emulator and Retro Net Server

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Adding links to top level as I go!

Added

The NABU Forum

NABU MAME

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NABU employee reunion with DJ Sures, Leo Binkowski and more!

Super new video!

Leo Binkowski – NABU Developer
DJ Sures – Executive and son of the founder of NABU
John Shortt – Director of Content Development, formerly Games Development Manager, author of Flashcards and one of the major developers for Dig Dug, as well as Manager’s Baseball)
Donna Shortt – Education software Developer, responsible for Seasonal Gardening and NABU Basic
Tim Ranger, author of Laser Attack and Leo and he also made Q*Bert
Eric Mesdag, Engineering Developer, author of MACBETH and one of the main NABU Cable IOS developers
MK Marsden – NABU marketing
Ed Myers – NABU Educational Marketing
Bob McNally – former NABU sales and later Director of Operations of NABU
Warren Belkin, developer of the original NABU Main Menu, and my inspiration for buying a motorcycle
Bill Bourne – NABU Engineering. Was involved in so many details about the hardware
Mike Slinn – one of the two people that designed and built the NABU prototype boards that were used inside the NABU 1100 before they had a NABU PC
And more!


https://www.youtube.com/live/QoZTBNz47co?si=NtMXOUj6PqRunCyM

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Posts Updated 10/6/2024 to reflect recent developments in the community.

Links:

The NABU RetroNet

The NABU Forum

NABU MAME

Essential Tools "An Adaptor" to get you connected!

NABUNetSim works a treat for a headless option

The NABU (New) on discord!

The NABU (Old) on discord!

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The Ghosts of NABU Present - Leo Binkowski - VCF East 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKORivoZAs

This talk about NABU present. A lot has happened in the NABU reconstruction world. Leo will be happy to present an entirely new cycle full of software, including some original games, many educational titles, and current information from 1985. Leo will update everyone on new findings of an almost completely intact NABU from 1985!

Recorded on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall, NJ where the Vintage Computer Federation Museum is located.
vcfed.org
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-comp...
https://vcfed.org/museum-info/
info@vcfed.org