User:Tingo

Tingo
Real name:	Torfinn Ingolfsen
Role:	Geek and Jack-of-all-trades

Back in old times, I was a user of ND machines, Sintran III, Tandberg terminals (I even did repairs) and more. Later I was also a System Operator of ND machines. These days, I am the proud caretaker of a working ND-Satellite/9. You can read more about it on my worklog for the machine: ND 900-135.

The ND-100/CX worklog is here: ND 3392-1669

Contact info (protected email address): http://scr.im/1w02

Wanted

Stuff I am looking for

2011-12-20: I am looking for a 3094 Ethernet II Controller (and internal cabling) for the ND-100/CX machine.

history

2010-10-22: I got myself a ND-Satellite/9 machine, two terminals (ND 320 and ND 246), two boxes of floppies (8 inch) and some manuals from a nice fellow in town. Cool!

2010-10-23: it seems like the winchester disk in the ND-Satellite/9 doesn't want to play. Everything powers up, and the drive is spinning, but I get errors when trying to read from it.

2010-10-24: my contributions to this site (if any) can be licensed under any license Mike wants to use. Torfinn 15:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

2010-11-29: The ND-Satellite/9 boots SINTRAN III again; this is the first time since I got the machine.

2010-12-03: The machine now boots straight into SINTRAN III (from hard drive) when powered on. Yay!

2010-12-03: I tested and verified the (serial) terminal ports on the back of the machine. Terminal 48 - 51 (ports 6 - 9) are set to current loop, and all works. Terminal 36 - 39 (ports 2 - 5) are set to RS-232, but only terminal 38 and 39 are working

2011-09-23: Today I got a ND-100/CX Compact machine and a Tandberg TDV2200/9 terminal delivered to my apartment! Thanks!. The key switch on the panel is broken, hard drive drive doesn't seem to work, and I don't have any 5.25 inch ND floppies, but I am still very happy.

2011-10-10: More testing of the ND-100/CX today. The hard drive doesn't respond at all - perhaps the motor isn't spinning at all?

2011-11-10: ND-100/CX - today I fixed the hard drive (a ST-506 drive, Micropolis 1325); it had the "sticky bumper" problem; end stops for the head assembly is made of rubber, which turns sticky after many years. The result is that the head can't "unstick" itself when the drive is powered up. And since the drive doesn't get track 0 (zero) it turns itself off after about a minute. Putting a piece of paper (a thin strip from a post-it note) between the "sticky bumper" and the head assembly fixed that.

2011-11-10: ND-100/CX - testing the machine with the newly fixed drive; after pressing "START" the "RUNNING" light comes on, and after a while the machine boots into Sintran (SINTRAN III - VSX / 500 K). Happy day!

Various links

Just various ND-related links that I have found and want to find again.

Stian Sletner's Norsk Data notes on WTFwiki, about a ND-5400ES. test

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