On this page, the line between the original TNS and TNS 64 is unclear.
TNS is a universal control system developed by JZD Slušovice in cooperation with Transport Construction Olomouc. This modular system is suitable, among other things, for data collection and pre-processing. The TNS 64 series microcomputers are assembled from a TNS cartridge, TNS computer modules and peripherals.
In the current state of knowledge, we only know that this was the predecessor of the TNS ST. It will probably be several different computers, see the questions below.
(apparently according to the name it is TNS already with a P64K card)
Mentioned in "seminar to use ..."
The diploma thesis mentions the following mandatory: CPU, INT, PROM, RAM and peripherals: TNS keyboard, printing. DZM 180, VT23000, SDP FS 1500S, floppy SM 5605, disk, memory KDP 720 and more.
The question is the terminal, if it used AZJ6416 as SPU, or if they already had TV-D. One of the witnesses (JJ) confirmed this in a private message.
As already mentioned, JZD Slušovice was not the only enterprise in our country that produced computers. However, the cooperative defended the production of TNS microcomputers in the following way: "The need for production stems from the fact that similar devices are either not produced in the Czechoslovakia, or there is a shortage of them, or they are disproportionately expensive." TNS microcomputers were to be produced exclusively for the purposes of agricultural cooperatives. The planned production volume for 1983 was as follows: TNS AGRO – 115 pcs and TNS JZD – 35 pcs together for 110 million CZK. Production was ensured by JZD Slušovice in cooperation with Transport Constructions Olomouc and external collaborators. Components that were unavailable here were imported from other socialist states