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Scandis

Scandis was the Norwegian name of the Swedish Compis educational microcomputer made in the 1980s, based on an Intel 80186 CPU and running the CP/M-86 operating system. The computer was mostly marketed towards, and sold to, Swedish and Norwegian gymnasium-level schools.

Notable applications being run on the Scandis in an educational environment was:

• COMAL interpreter
• Turbo Pascal 3.0 compiler, under the name Scandis-Pascal
• WordStar word processor

Some schools had simple local area networks of Scandis computers, where 10–20 machines shared one harddisk of typically 10MB capacity.

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