NORD-1

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The NORD-1 was Norsk Data's first minicomputer. It was the first commercially available computer made in Norway.

It was a 16-bit system, developed in 1967. The first NORD-1 (serial number 2) installed was an anti-collision system used with the NORCONTROL process control system aboard the ship M/S Taimyr, where it proved extremely reliable for its time.

It was probably the first minicomputer to feature floating-point equipment as standard, and had an unusually rich complement of registers for its time. It also featured relative addressing, and a fully automatic context switched interrupt system.

It was also the first minicomputer to offer virtual memory, offered as an option by 1969.^[1]

It was succeeded by the NORD-10.

[edit] Remaining machines

The NORD-1 has been unusually well-preserved. Approximately 60 machines seem to have been produced, and at the very least 10 machines have been preserved, including serial numbers 2, 4, and 5. This may owe to the fact that the company Norsk Data was already a very large and exceedingly rapidly growing corporation by the time many of these machines were decommissioned.

[edit] Sources

1. ^ Norsk Data Annual Report 1982, ND Publications, April 6th 1983