LaF0rge,
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short video clip on 125 years of TELENORMA (historical German telecommunications manufacturer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVzSzFKywL4 #retronetworking #telephony

malte,
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@LaF0rge Interesting video. My first PC was made by telenorma. A 286 with a floppy drive and a very loud keyboard.
Sadly I cannot find any information about it on the internet.

LaF0rge,
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@malte I didn't even know TN made desktop PCs at some point. It's quite common for equipment from that pre-www period to not have any information online. Unless there's some collector documenting it, like we do for telecom equipment at https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/Retronetworking -most of that also has no other information about it.

malte,
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@LaF0rge I cannot stop thinking about how strange it is that certain technical stuff didn’t find its way into the internet. It’s quite sad to be honest.

In two weeks I’ll have the chance to talk to the folk who got me this PC in the 90s when they worked at TN. Maybe they have a handbook or a picture of the it. That would be cool.

LaF0rge,
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@malte it's quite usual for material (data sheets, marketing material, manuals) from equipment designed in the pre-internet days like a 286 class PC to never have existed in digital form. And even a lot of technology from the mid to late 90s often is not well documented/preserved on the internet as mass storage was still very expensive, companies went bankrupt, etc.

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