User:Gandalf

ND enthusiast, arsenic digger and basically weird!

After a mammoth move in april 2009 and a donation in august I'm the proud caretaker of

• Two Nord-10 in bad condition (1 2)
• Twelve ND-110 satellites (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
• Two ND-100 satellite 9 systems (1 2)
• A ND-100 compact
• Four ND-110 compact (1 2 3 4)
• A ND-100 in an orange half rack
• Four loose ND-100 CPU crates (1 2 3 4)
• A ND-500 and a filestore with SMB disks
• One ND-5200 compact and one ND-5xxx compact (It depends on what I can put together)
• One ND-5xxx compact card cage without cards.
• A ND-5700
• A ND-5700 without CPU
• A ND filestore with SCSI discs
• 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 140-0521 CDC 9715 340 Mbyte 9" FSD, part no 73088701 serial number 14328
  • Three more 9" SMB drives, probably CDC
  • Several Micropolis SCSI disks
  • Some MFM drives
• A ND butterfly
• A whole lot of various cards and other loose pieces
• Close to a ton of documentation
• A lot of different software.
• And a large number of terminals
  • 36 NOTIS VDU terminals, made by Nokia
  • A TELERAY 10 terminal, came with the NORD-10/S from LUDD
  • A 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

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

Some of my ND projects beside this wiki

• 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

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

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