Sorry to have worked up a lot of commotion for nothing, but earlier today
I received the news that we are too late to save the Sords. They were
thrown in a container and dumped God-knows-where a little more than a week
ago. Let us hope that they were at least disassembled and recycled. The
guy I spoke with says that there may be a few tape drives left (not Sord
CR-5, but other models for Sord's business range). If anyone is
interested, contact Claes Borlid directly at +46 (0)31 887613.
It grieves my heart that this treasure could not be saved. It is small
comfort that even if we had acted faster we would not have been in time.
/Fredrik
PS. The company did save a few working machines of various models so that
they can set up their own museum in the future. Thus, not quite everything
was lost forever.