OZNAKI Project
was an educational robotics project
inspired initially by the MIT LOGO Project
The project, which ran from 1975-84,
used the very earliest micromputers
Featured educational robotics, "turtles", chunky graphics,
Educational aim was multiple embodiment of mathematical ideas.
For a web overview of OZNAKI go to
Glimpses of the OZNAKI Project at La Trobe 1975 - 84
Publications Concerning OZNAKI, the La Trobe Talking Communicator, and Related Topics
Papers related to Oznaki are listed below by major heading.
Also listed is the link to a PDF or Web version, or BibTex info, where it exists.
Note that as this was a pioneering project, the actual tools for developing
microprocessor code had to developed.
Especially notable in this regard is the paper,
Harvey A. Cohen and Rhys S. Francis, Macro-Assemblers and Macro-Based Languages in Micro-processor Software Development,
first published in IEEE Computer in 1979, and then republished in an IEEE volume,
P. Isaacson (Editor), Microprocessors and Microcomputers
along with papers describing the architecture of the Intel 8086 by the chips designers,
and a paper describing the coming Motorola 68000 by its lead designers.
The Intel 8086
was set to
power the Wintel PC, and the Motorola 68000, was destined for use in Sun workstations, and in
some Apple products. Also in this now historic reprint volume is a notable paper by Alan Kay et al,
Personal Dynamic Media describing SmallTalk -- whose GUI was copied by
Apple (in the Macintosh) and then by Microsoft in Windows.
Kay's paper also explains the concept of the Dynabook -- essentially a prophesy of
the thin laptops of the late 1990's.
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