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by steveeq1 2888 days ago
I am answering my own question because I got a reply from engelbart institute. Posting here so other people can benefit:

Hi Steve,

Happy to answer your questions. I'm wondering what's your interest and how you learned about it?

Sorry I missed your earlier email. Unfortunately NLS/augment is not available to download, although we are trying to get a copy running again, but that could be awhile and access would be limited at first. And we don't have any extra keysets unfortunately, nor do I know the status of Open Augment :(

But the great news is that Dean Meyer who got his start in Doug Engelbart's lab and spent the last 30+ years as a management consultant and author in the CIO arena, along the way developed a PC-based version of NLS/Augment called HyPerform - which I've recently started using myself - it has virtually all the basic editing, browsing, and publishing features of Augment and then some, and is very true to the original system. I'm planning

Learn more re: HyPerform system requirements and order information at http://www.ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm

Let me know if you have any questions, Best,

. . .

Oh also if this is any interest to you, we've just resurrected HyperScope -- a web browsing prototype including most of the Augment browsing, jumping and viewspec features -- at http://hyperscope.org. If you want to take that for a spin, see the download instructions at the site. If you're on a mac, you can download this wine-wrapped firefox2.0 to run on Mac that someone created for me, it's working great for me.