OWS

OWS is an acronym for Office Workstation. It was a line of office workstations based on Ericsson 286 PC

List of models

This is a list of known models with specific data on performance when known.

• ND-150001 : OWS-10
  • Dual floppy based workstation.
  • 512 kByte memory as standard
  • NOTIS keyboard (called the Butterfly keyboard)
• ND-150002 : OWS-11
  • Dual floppy based workstation.
  • 512 kByte memory as standard
  • NOTIS keyboard (called the Butterfly keyboard)
• ND-150003 : OWS-12
  • Model with hard drive and MS-Windows environment.
  • 1 Hard drive Ericsson type E7 (CDC) or E9 (NEC)
  • 1 Floppy drive 1.2 Mbyte 5,25"
  • 512 kByte memory as standard
  • Serial port
  • Video mode : Text 80 columns color (text 40 columns color and monochrome 320x200 pixel also possible)
  • NOTIS keyboard (called the Butterfly keyboard)
• OWS-110 workstation or Butterfly-110 or Butterfly Teamstation
  • Based on a PC XT running MS-DOS 3.1
  • ND-110 CPU on a double ISA-bus board. ND-110PCX
  • Possible to connect up to 4 terminals or OWS workstations. This is the Teamstation version.
  • Hard disk based, a 51 Mbyte winchester drive (ND-525055) partitioned into 5 Mbyte for DOS and 36 MByte for SINTRAN III.
  • 1 floppy drive (ND-529023) 1.2 Mbyte (TEAC FD55 or NEC FD1155C)

Software

• Butterfly-110 ND Diagnostics : Test programs for testing hardware and file system (File System Investigator).