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Lysator is an academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden with almost 600 members. It is an independent non-profit society, separate from the students' union and the faculties of the university.
HistoryEdit
Lysator was founded on 29 March 1973. The first computer used at Lysator was a Datasaab D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973. Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a microcomputer, the LYS-16, which was advanced for its time due to its 16-bit word size.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In February 1993, Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden, among the first 10–15 in the world.
On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3U home rack,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> increasing their available storage space from 700GB to 13TB.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Projects hosted by LysatorEdit
Lysator has been a starting ground for many notable projects, some of which have since become independent from the club:
- Project Runeberg
- LysKOM
- Elfwood
- SvenskMud
- NannyMUD
- Sprite Animation Toolkit
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