The NabuNetwork.com development team both provides and has compiled a number of historical resources that are of general interest to NABU PC owners and enthusiast. While this list is by no means comprehensive, it should serve to be useful.

NABU Network Corporate (1982-1986):

• NABU Network Corporation History
• NABU in DC (1983-1984)
• NABU Software Application List
• NABU Software PAK ID Numbers
• The Internet Before Its Time: NABU Network in the Nation’s Capital
• Don Sawyer’s Reflections of NABU from 1983

Meet Leo Binkowski:
Leo is an ex-NABU computer programmer (1982-1986) who was hired to create arcade games for the NABU Computer at a young age. The NABU Network software department was inspired to engage students to be game programmers with hopes of pushing their technology and adapting popular games.

• Leo Binkowski’s NABU history and biography

York University Computer Museum began a reconstruction project:

• YUNN Reconstruction and Online Collection

The Unofficial History of NABU in DC:
Did you know NABU did expand to two other countries outside of Canada? One being in Sowa, Japan; and the other being in Washington D.C. Well, sort of. Find out more by visiting the Unofficial History of NABU in DC website!

NABU Network in the News:

• Remember This? The NABU Network – Ottawa City News – PDF (390.76 KB)
• NABU to Spin Off On Its Own – The Washington Post (November 1984) – PDF (33.44 KB)
• NABU Network an idea well ahead of its time – The Ottawa Citizen April 25, 2009

The Grunt Press Newsletter:
Here are a few issues from the Grunt Press, a NABU Network Newsletter from 1984. Thanks Leo Binkowski for pointing these out to the NABU Community and to Ray Teske for preserving these Grunt Press copies.

• Grunt Press Issue 12 – July 20, 1984 – PDF (74.12 MB)
• Grunt Press Issue 14 – August 17, 1984 – PDF (50.48 MB)
• Grunt Press Issue 19 – October 26, 1984 – PDF (74.69 MB)
• Grunt Press Issue 20 – November 8, 1984 – PDF (173.20 MB)

Cable Modems in the 1980’s:
Many sources like Wikipedia and others claim the first cable modem was in the mid 1990’s, however we know that NABU Network in the 1980s was doing amazing things with cable modems.

Thanks to the efforts of technology enthusiast Grizzly Adams, we now have an amazing document from 1983 discussing cable modems and it references NABU.

• Cable Data Communicatons Systems 1983, Department of Communications, Ottawa, Canada

From Electronic to Video Gaming – Computing in Canada:
Sharing the Fun: Video Games in Canada, 1950-2015 by the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Version 2 created on January 30, 2015 by Jean-Louis Trudel.

• Historical Assessment Update by Jean-Louis Trudel – PDF (940.41 KB)

How you can help:
There is a lot of NABU computer historical information missing online. The NABU Network development team plans to help change that with this website by adding more content as we come across it.

If you have any historical documentation about the NABU, we would love to add it to our archives, so please get in touch with us.