ND-110 Satellite 9800.20922

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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

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) 125 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 DoneDone
  • Document all serial and model numbers on devices.DoneDone
  • Image the SCSI disk before attempting a boot. DoneDone Spins up, and was easy to image using ZuluSCSI (somehow the BlueSCSI2 was unable to identify the drive)
  • Check the power supply condition DoneDone

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.
2025-02-01: Tried to boot the SCSI image on the RetroCore emulator. It seems that the CPU type and CPU number for the OS does not match the ND-110 SATELLITE, but a ND-500 COMPACT

Boot

SINTRAN III - VSX/500 K STANDARD CONFIGURATION: D GENERATION (WORK MODE NO.): 406B REVISION (PATCH FILE NO.): 7300B CPU TYPE: 5291 CPU NUMBER: 21057 GENERATED: 20.35.00 29 SEPTEMBER 1987 SINTRAN III RUNNING -

PAGES FOR SWAPPING: 3353B

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]

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