User:TArntsen

These days a Unix and Linux geek, but I used to work with a Nord-10/S system back in 1982, and from 1986 also ND-100, ND5x0 and (from 1987) ND5x00 systems. Several such systems were deployed at ESA (the European Space Agency) from 1988 to approximately 1995 (when we replaced them with Silicon Graphics systems), where they were used for reception and processing of data from the ERS-1 satellite, and also the ERS-2 satellite in the final year.

I used to have several sets of what must have been close to every manual Norsk Data ever produced, but unfortunately everything somehow got thrown away at some point, except for a few documents. I also have lots of CCT backup tapes (although some of them are probably quite degraded by now), and I once wrote a tool to read backup-system format tapes on an SGI system, but unfortunately I only copied a couple of tapes back then when I still had a CCT tape drive.

All of which goes to show that despite the best of intentions information loss does continue to happen..

(oh, and I'm also writing my own ND500(x) and ND100 emulators.. the latter just so I can use assembler-500.prog to generate test programs for the former)