User:Gandalf

ND enthusiast, arsenic digger and basically weird!

My collection

Via different donations, both small and big I'm the proud caretaker of the following collection.

Individual machines

• Nord-1 serial number 47
• Two Nord-10 in bad condition (1 2)
• A NORD-50 serial number 37
• A ND-100 in an orange half rack
• A ND-100 CX in a large cabinet. Looks to be in great condition and complete. CPU upgraded to 3095 ND-110CX 32B
• Two ND-100 satellite 9 systems
  • #1 Serial 900.11
  • #2 Serial 900.314
• A ND-100 compact
• Eleven ND-110 satellites in various states, from complete and running to a pile of components.
  • #1 Serial 21251 Working, at home, ND-120, Ethernet II
  • #2 Serial 21244 Working, at storage, ND-110, Ethernet II
  • #3 Serial 21202 Missing floppy, streamer and disc
  • #4 Serial 21245 Missing a lot of cards, floppy, streamer and disc
  • #5 Serial 21240 Missing front, floppy, streamer and a few cards
  • #6 Serial 21207 In pieces and butchered for parts
  • #7 Serial 21242 Missing hard drive, mostly complete
  • #8 Serial 21183 Empty shell but has a hard disc
  • #9 Serial 21232 Missing floppy and streamer, mostly complete
  • #10 Serial 21674 Missing front, power supply, disc, floppy, streamer, CPU and memory
  • #11 Serial 21211 In pieces, mostly an empty shell.
• A ND-100/CX compact
  • Serial 102-3112 with 5.25" and 8" floppy drives.
• Four ND-110 compact
  • #1 Serial 19985
  • #2 Serial 17848
  • #3 Serial number unknown
  • #4 Serial number unknown
• A ND-500 and a filestore with SMB disks. Once in service at Forsmark 3.
• Two ND-5xxx Compact
  • ND-5200 compact
  • ND-5xxx compact Empty of cards.
• A ND-5700
• A ND-5700 without CPU
• Two ND-5000 full size racks from the computer club LUDD in Luleå. Named Piff and Puff with Several CPU:s included.
  • ND-5800 named PIFF and dated 1988-01-19
    • Power supply DC 110, DC 200, DC 300
  • ND-5500 named PUFF
• A ND filestore with SCSI discs
• A ND butterfly

Components

• Four loose ND-100 CPU crates (1 2 3 4)
• One ND-5xxx compact card cage without cards.
• Two different tape drives
• Two ND 511 HAWK disks (CDC 9427H-R HAWK CDD, SMB, 10 Mbyte, also marked ND 31-304) in cabinets. (1 2)
• A ND 585 Phoenix disk (CDC 9448 CDD, SMB, 16+16 Mbyte) for rack mounting.
• A number of different loose disks
  • ND 138-0633 Fujitsu b030-4740-T002A M2322K 8 inch disk drive (168 Mbyte with SMB interface)
  • ND 106160 CDC 9715 340 Mbyte 9" FSD, part no 73088701 serial number 14328
  • ND 106160 CDC 9715 340 Mbyte 9" FSD, part no 73088701 serial number 13115
  • ND 106150 CDC 9715 500 Mbyte 9" FSD, part no 73089401 serial number 2555
  • ND 106170 CDC 9715 Mbyte 9" RSD, part no 72860001 serial number 13257
  • Several Micropolis SCSI disks
  • Some MFM drives
• A whole lot of various cards and other loose pieces

Documentation

• Close to a ton of documentation

Software

• A lot of different software, list in my software archive.

Terminals

• • 36 NOTIS VDU terminals, made by Nokia
  • A TELERAY 3541D terminal, came with the NORD-10/S from LUDD
  • A Teletype terminal, came with the NORD-1 from Gjövik fagskole
  • A Technovision CAD terminal, CLOU III, ND 111055 with digitizer, pen and two LCD screens
  • A rebranded Texas Instruments printer terminal.
  • Several Tandberg terminals of various models

Looking for...

But a collector never gets enough so what I'm looking for right now is

• More information about the ND-5000 series of computers.
• More CPU:s to upgrade my ND-5700 system.
• A ND-5850 CPU or ND-5800 CPU.
• Hardware information about OWS, also known as the butterfly
• Microcode information for ND-110/ND-120 CPU:s
• More ND-10 and ND-50 hardware
• A 80 Mbyte CDC SMB cartridge disk to read the media I got
• Paper tape reader / punch
• Card reader / punch
• Peripherals for the NORD-1, like drum memory or NCR 655 disk drive.
• Cartridge drives to be able to read some of my media

Projects

Some of my ND projects beside this wiki

• Get the NORD-1 up and running
• Get a satellite up and running and connect it to the internet.
• Make a ND media reader to read old ND-media (floppies, disks, tapes)
• Make an extension to linux to be able to mount SINTRAN III partitions
• Document scanning project, an effort of documenting, finding and scanning all the manuals ND made.
• Make a more comprehensive List of product numbers now when we know of so many more products than when the wiki started.

I made a brief showing at a local lan, Frostbyte 2013, with some of my computers, among other a ND-110 with a notis terminal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIMtinBfVOc

Got some more documentation and software during spring 2016, among other things several versions of SINTRAN III and OWS-related stuff.

Restoration notes

• Many fasteners are DZUS quarter turn quick lock. One source of these are Aeromateriel

Contact information

If you are interested in getting a ND system, want to get rid of a ND system or just chat about these computers, feel free to contact me.

Contact information:

I live in northern Sweden in Umeå.
Phone : +46 (0)73 98 67 881
email : axelsson at acc.umu.se