Norsk Data Nord-100 haul!

A few days I was picking up an IMSAI with Nico de Jong who was in Norway, to send it with him to Fred van Kempen. So, we drive to Minnesund, and stop by to withdraw money in Eidsvoll. While driving the ATM, I spot a bin behind a building while driving. He parks halfway and we go each way. While he's busy not finding the ATM, I check out the bin and to my utter utter shock, instead of the x86 junk which constitutes the absolute majority I find a ND-110/CX Compact!! It's... ...it's upside down. OK, just tip it over. Of course, it's on the bottom, so I remove ~8 screens, and pull the bin apart. Roll the Nord into the car with nontrivial effort, and bring some of the terminals. (OK, all but one ;) Get it home, get weird looks and remarks, some of them deserved, get the machine in. Shaking, I plug in the power cord. And attempt to power up. After gaining a basic understanding of the workings of the controls, I twist the key. Workage! No smoke or anything. hook up the console. 17.42.24 16 MAY 1999 SINTRAN III - VSX/500 K ENTER It actually boots! Given the treatment it was given to get it home, not to mention the treatment that made it end up upside down in a dumpster, the (reportedly extremely fragile) SCSI disks surviving is no less than a miracle. OK, so ISTR the user being SYSTEM. PASSWORD: Crap. Even though I'm on the console... no go. OK, call a friend who used to work at Norsk Data and now has a significant stock of spares (I might get to hit him up for an ethernet card! And maybe even a ND-5850 CPU!!). He comes around later that day with some special floppies only ND employees had, and reveals the password: "MARS". I can only speculate that this was a part of a monthly password change routine ("Mars" is Norwegian for March) :) The CPU has been changed with a Nord-120/CX (without telling ND, their docs still say it's an 110). I believe the CX means Commercial eXtensions, an extra set of instructions like the PDP-11's CIS. And I'm in! And about 10 minutes later, the terminal dies!!! ARGH!! I'm starting a separate thread about that. Also, I got an Apollo 400. I don't know much about these. Might put it up for trade. OK, so the porn is at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~toresbe/nd (That page is under active construction!). Also images of Fred van Kempen's IMSAI with me posing with the trophy at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~toresbe/imsai :)