Hi,
2009/11/23 G?ran Axelsson <axelsson at acc.umu.se>
Eagle Eye Pontus!
Nice spoting! It surely looks like a Tandberg keyboard used by Norsk Data.
If I have understood the scattered pieces of early Norwegian computer
history right then Kongsberg V?penfabrikk AS and Norsk Data AS were direct
competitors in the early years around 1970. Later on ND concentrated on the
mini computers while
They might have been.
Another part of history is that the predecessors of the first Norsk Data
machines were machines built at Kongsberg (now if Kongsberg designed those
machines alone, in cooperation with FFI, or if FFI designed them alone, I
don't know).
they bought and rebranded the peripherals from other
makers. Kongsberg
dropped the computers and started to make peripherals and develop software.
For part of their history, Kongsberg also made "controllers" (cnc and other
industrial processes) based on their computers. If this part extended into
ND's timeline, I don't know.
Too bad I'm so far from that Kongsberg machine. It
should definitely be
saved in some way.
Is it a complete machine? Is it a computer or some peripheral? How big is
it? Any software, documentation or tapes left for it? Is there any way to
tell the age of it?
To me it looks like it has a complete OMP (Operators Maintenance Panel),
which is an indication that the main rack of the machine is there at least.
Hopefully, people with more knowledge will correct / extend this
information.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway