ND-110 Satellite 9800.20922

A ND-110 Satellite

Hardware

Hardware in the machine is described in this section.

PCB Cards in the Satellite

The machine is probably a model 9883 model T9 as it has:

• 2MB RAM
• 125 MB SCSI DISK
• Streamer tape (125 MB QUIC)
• 9 Interfaces for terminal/printer

A sales document with more details for the ND-110 Satellite can be found here

• http://norsk-data.com/library/libsales/ND-SID019-A1-NO.pdf
• http://www.sintran.com/sintran/library/libpdpi/ND-9881-A1-EN.pdf

Cards

Hardware Components (Leftmost → Rightmost)

Backplane Slot	Card	Part Number	PCB Number	Description	Print Version	ECO
1	PIOC	322613	PCB 3013	ND-100 8-TERM	Print M	ECO N
2	MEGAL	322615	PCB 3015	ND100 HDLC W/A.LO.	Print S	ECO
3	MEMORY	322672	PCB 3042	ND100 2MBY RAM	Print B	ECO D
4	FL. SCSI	350001	PCB 3201	SCSI / FLOPPY	Print B	ECO E
5	CPU	324140	PCB 3095	ND110 CPU & MM 32B	Print B	ECO H
6	COMM			Empty (can be upgraded with 3094 ETHERNET IF)
7	PIOC			Empty (can be upgraded with 3108 PIOC)

Switch settings

CPU 3095

• 8J - baud rate switch - 7 - 9600 baud (standard)
• 28J - ALD switch - 9 - ALD reg I12 = 21560B, Mass load 1560B, comment: "SCSI controller 1, only available on the ND-110/120 CPU"

Devices

• Floppy drive : 5 1/4" (potentially 1.2MB)
• Tape streamer : Tandberg TDC 3640
• Hard drive : MICROPOLIS 1375 (125 MB)

CPU

The CPU is an ND-110/CX with 32 bit floating point running Microcode version 14

This can be seen by the label on the EPROM's for the Microcode

• 37932L
• 37933L

L means version 12 as L is the 12th character in the alphabet, but decimal 12 is 14 octal (latest known version is version 14/L). 32 (in the 37932L label) means 32 bit floating point.

For more information, check out the [3095] PCB documentation

Power Supply

• Wiener DN 01, 390 W

Connectors

• Power connector : [1] C16 type C16
• Power cable [2]
• Console connector : DB25F

Labels

On the devices

FLOPPY: 187-3187
STREAMER: ND 229-1053 TDC 3640 Series SCSI , TDC_3640 (SerialNo 373663) INCOMING DATE 22-04-88
DISK: Micropolis 1375 (S/N:6082010769 P/N:900525-09-BA) 74 MB formatted (https://www.micropolis.com/support/hard-drives/1375)

On the front of the cabinet (behind the front door)

• printed label above tape streamer / floppy drive

LOGNR
 9021

• Norsk Data ID LABEL at the bottom

CAB./ASSY NO: 1.1
FUNCTION: SATELLITE 
SYSTEM NO: 9800/20922

TODO

• Some basic cleaning as the system has been standing since the 90's Done
• Document all serial and model numbers on devices.Done
• Image the SCSI disk before attempting a boot. Done Spins up, and was easy to image using ZuluSCSI (somehow the BlueSCSI2 was unable to identify the drive)
• Check the power supply condition Template:In progress

Operating System

• SINTRAN III - VSX/500 K
• XMSG is configured
• The password for user SYSTEM is set to 0 (?) or is it empty?

XMSG Remote

• ND-5200 2105 (*DSSYSTEM, *IDSYSTEM)
• JUSTIS 2092

X25

• Datex-P X.121 - 4561214123
  • 45 Country code → Norway
  • 61 Network identifier → DATEX-P (historically Televerket / Telenor)
  • 214123 - Network internal (Subscriber/NUA)
• X25 was using HDLC1 controller logical 1360

History

• Based on timestamps on the disk, the system was probably first time configured 28. June 1988.
• Last time booted: USER SYSTEM ENTERED AT 11.59.52 21 AUGUST 1992

2026

2025-01-25: Machine arrived. Started with taking some photos and getting access to the SCSI drive for disk imaging.

2025-01-25: Tried first with BlueSCSI2 (https://bluescsi.com/) but it didnt manage to identify the SCSI drive.

2025-01-25: Then used the ZuluSCSI (https://zuluscsi.com/) which was able to image the drive in less than 3 minutes.

Location

The system belongs to Nikolai and is located in Switzerland

References

[3][Norsk Data library, Hardware]

[4][Book 2: ND-100 SATELLITE, Assembly Drawings]

[5][Book 2: ND-100 SATELLITE, Cable Info. Block & Wiring Diagrams]