Indiana University

University Campus Info System
2 months TCS sub-contract: educational site

Indiana University was way ahead of the game in 1986 when they started looking into setting up a campus-wide interactive network.

University Information System

Disc International and Prime Computer approached us to model a large scale university campus information system.

Our interactive prototype pages were all linked together in a mini-site that gave the school administration a good sense of how their campus system might look:

Course Registration
Directory of Students and Faculty
School Services
Campus Map
Online educational courses
Recreation & Events
Chat Boards

Design Productivity Tools & Consultation

We licensed our TCS Textup Context Management System and other tools to Indiana U to manage their campus-wide system. The challenge for us was that the pages had to be viewable on a broad range of devices, including "dumb" terminals and (most significantly) Apple computers.

Skills & Techniques : This project was designed to demonstrate the competitiveness of Prime minicomputers and Disc International hosting software. Note: The pages displayed here were designed using the limited 16-color palette then standard for most PC's. Fortunately, the NAPLPS vectorgraphic display protocol we were using allowed us to create pages that were graphically sophisticated, easily shared and device independent.

The biggest creative challenge was designing an interactive map of the physical campus, hyperlinked to university services.