The founding, fantastic growth, and fast decline of Tor Olav Steine torolav@online.no
The best view of Rondane.. The Ronde Castle, 2178m The High Ronde 2118m ..is seen from one of the High Ronde
www.norsk-data.no
(Lars Monrad Krohn)
FFI Cipher Group 1966?
The First Three and the Chairman Rolf Skår Lars Monrad-Krohn Per Bjørge TerjeMikalsen
Product maturation through projects SAM2 Nord1 F-16 sim. Mac, Fortran ND 5,50,500.. SINTRAN NORTEXT LFK Net NOTIS TSS, QED CAD/CAM SIBAS, TPS ADMIN SW NSB, KOS, LEO
The Sigma 7 Instruction format
The Sigma 7 address control fields The 16-bit processors use one- or two-word instructions. Most of the instructions are one-word types consisting of a 4-bit operation code, a 4-bit address control field, and an 8-bit address field.
The Nord 1 • 16 bit address • 32 bit Floating Point • 16 interrupt levels • Hardware bootstrap (22!) • Core memoy • Tape Reader/puncher • Drum mass storage • Sintran 1 (Core load, Fortran)
Wilh. Wilhelmsen Taimyr 1968: Nord 1 Radar support anti-collision
The Tokke hydro power stations
The Nord-1 based system, Tokke
Dave Walden in the Arpanet team D a v e
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ARPANET Logical Map, March 1977
Rolf Skår summed it up as follows: No Bo Lewendal, no TSS. No TSS, no CERN contract, Bo Lewendal No Cern contract, ca 1971 ND bankrupt in 1973!
LHC: The Large Hadron Collider Geneva Airport
Norsk Data delivered Nord 10 computers To control the SPS ring, starting in 1974.
Norsk Data delivered Nord 10 computers To control the SPS ring, starting in 1974.
Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee (left) and Ted Nelson (right) at a WWW conference in Tokyo 1997.
JET, Joint European Torus, 1985
F16 simulator Saving flight hours in the air
NSB Cargo Car Supervision (1976): - Wagon rating - Maintenance - Tracking
Product maturation through projects SAM2 Nord1 F-16 sim. Mac, Fortran ND 5,10,50,500.. SINTRAN 1-3 NORTEXT LFK Net NOTIS TSS, QED CAD/CAM SIBAS, TPS ADMIN SW NSB, KOS, LEO
The Nord 10/100 • 16 interrupt levels • 16 register blocks • 16 bit address • 32 bit Floating Point • Virtual Memory • Multiport Memory • Sintran 3 w/Time Sharing & RT processes
The ND 10 Panel
The NOTIS Concept
The NOTIS Keyboard
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The Market Committee
How do you inspire people to perform at a maximum level?
The ND Spirit • Work: You spend at least half of your time awake at work — get the most out of it! • Solutions: Do not choose the easiest one, choose the one you think is right! • Work pressure: The reward usually is proportional with the difficulties. • Things you dislike: Do something about them, improve them if they are important enough.
The ND Spirit, contd. • Work instructions: Until you are sure someone else has taken over the responsibility, the responsibility is your own . • Colleagues: Find out who are important for you (org. chart disregarded), and treat them accordingly. • Instincts: Be skeptical of some of them, do some of the things you dislike the most, talk to some of the persons you dislike the most.
The ND Spirit, contd. • Performance: If you are honest to yourself, you are the best judge. • Improvements: You are allowed to propose improvements, even if you are not perfect yourself. • Obedience: If you are convinced that you are right, stick to it. • Personality: Be yourself. Like yourself. Improve yourself. • Mistakes: Admit them. • Chances: Take them.
Ole Reistad: Samling i bånn, karer! (Leder for det norske laget i militært patruljeløp under vinter-OL i St. Moritz i 1928)
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5000 Results 1974-1990 4000 3000 Revenue Profit 2000 Emplyees 1000 0 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 -1000
The Management Group
So, what went wrong?
What went wrong? • The price of oil dropped 50% (1986) • The Norwegian Government purchased less • Disruptive technologies emerged • Networked PCs, Unix Standardized platforms • Necessary shifts to systems integration not made • Norsk Data was caught in its growt spiral • Necessary changes would never had been accepted by stock holders • …and maybe a little arrogance • Continous, successful growth for 13 years does something to you.
The new management group
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What more went wrong: The Coup de grâce : • A 200 MNOK convertible loan, to be repaid in full (by 1988?). • DnB guaranteed for the payback loan. • ND was eventually taken over by Den Norske Bank, who sold it to Telenor – the Norwegian state owned Telecom operator, for less than they could write off in taxes (because of inherent losses in the ND books)
ND ceased to exist 1992 • The employees were dispersed between a number of companies.. – Umoe, Telenor, Ergo Group, Siemens, Bravida, EDB, etc. ----oOo----
19. Sept 2007 500 ND-veterans gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a company that ceased to exist 15 years ago!
Polytechnic Society, Oslo
Kristen Nygård Ole Johan Dahl Inventors of object oriented programming: Simula Bård Sørbye Robert Cailliau Dave Walden Tor Olav Steine R&D Norsk Data www co-inventor Internet/BBN R&D Norsk Data 2011.04.09 Alfatroll - Company confidential 68
ND’s 40th anniversary at the Norwegian Technical Museum
40th anniversary Sept.19.2007 TerjeMikalsen Rolf Skår Lars Monrad-Krohn
Gathering at Skullerud
..resulting in Internet, WWW, and object oriented programming – in short: state of the art computing ND may not have invented the gunpowder 2011.04.09 Alfatroll - Company confidential 72 … but we heard the explosion!!
The founding, fantastic growth, and fast decline of Tor Olav Steine torolav@online.no
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