Norpak

Company

Image	Name	Function
	Decoder, videotext	RECEIVES, DECODES, CREATES & DISPLAYS TELIDON GRAPHIC IMAGES.
	Panel	A panel used to cover the edges of a component...
	Keypad	Input device for second generation videotex decoder, used to decode...
	Decoder, videotext	USED TO DECODE TELIDON SIGNALS SENT VIA ANIK B SATELLITE
	Decoder, videotext	DISPLAYS TELIDON PAGES SEQUENTIALLY OR WITH RANDOM ACCESS.
	Keypad	Used to input data into Norpak MK.3 Telidon decoder
	Decoder, videotext	THIRD GENERATION VIDEOTEX DECODER, USED TO DECODE TELIDON GRAPHIC IMAGES.
	Decoder, videotext	SECOND GENERATION VIDEOTEX DECODER, USED TO DECODE TELIDON GRAPHICS IMAGES
	Decoder, videotext	USED TO DECODE TELIDON GRAPHICS IMAGES, PROBABLY WITH TELIDON KEYPAD...
	Decoder, videotext	PART OF THE IPS-2 INFORMATION PROVIDER SYSTEM USED FOR GRAPHICS...
	Computer	Used as a picture creation computer for the Telidon system.
	Decoder, videotext	TO ALLOW ACCESS TO A 'TELIDON' INFORMATION DATA-BASE VIA A...
	Keypad	Used to input data into Norpak EPS 1 Telidon decoder.

1975-01-01

1987-01-01

Pakenham, ON (1975-1981)

Kanata, ON (1981-)

Computing

Graphics Devices

Manufacturing

Related: Computing Devices of Canada (Ottawa, ON)

- 1975 – Company founded by Mark Norton and John Norton, brothers and the sons of Joseph Norton (who founded Computing Devices of Canada) in Pakenham, ON (“20 Years Ago Today”)

- 1975 – “In 1975 the [Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC)] contracted Norpak to develop an interactive colour display terminal based on the new alphanumeric PDI.” (“Telidon” Wikipedia)

- 1979 – Active, developing the Telidon decoder. (“Telidon” Wikipedia)

- 1981 – Company moves from Pakenham, ON to Kanata, ON. (“20 Years Ago Today”)

- 1984 – The company was sold to foreign investors. (“20 Years Ago Today”)

- 1985 – Active. (“Bringing Telidon TV into the home..”)

- 1987 – Active, company chosen “to provide… a PCX5 graphic overlay controller” by Reynolds and Reynolds of Dayton Ohio. (“Co-operation helps ad agency survive”)

“20 Years Ago Today – Norpak’s Norton Family” Ottawa Citizen March 7, 2002: E5

Charters, Mary Jane “Bringing Telidon TV into the home Norpak dream…” Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday (March 23, 1982): 62

“Co-operation helps ad agency survive” Ottawa Citizen, October 5, 1987: A15

Memoirs of a Valley Kid “NRC, Noranda, Northern opened high tech floodgates” Silicon Valley NORTH (February 1996): 12-13

“Telidon”, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telidon) [13-08-24]