BATCH NUMBER =      1
 19.53.58     12 JULY   1999
 SINTRAN III - VSX/500 K 
 STANDARD CONFIGURATION:    D
 GENERATION (WORK MODE NO.):    500B
 REVISION (PATCH FILE NO.):   12100B
 CPU TYPE:     3092
 CPU NUMBER:  20072
 GENERATED:   12.11.00      8 JUNE   1988
SINTRAN III RUNNING -

PAGES FOR SWAPPING:   7271B
 

1999-07-12 19:54:43 SPRINT server is RUNNING

***19.54.45 TERMINAL    670:
=== SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE ===

* IBM 3780/2780 emulator II *
* MIKI BSC COMM version 2.3 *

Modem line reserved and output buffer size ok

 19.54.56     12 JULY   1999
 SINTRAN III - VSX/500 K 
ENTER SYSTEM
PASSWORD: 
OK
@COPY,TERMINAL,BESKRIVELSE:HTML

Note that this is not my current main machine. My current main machine is a ~1987 ND-5700!

This machine started life as an ND-110/CX, quoth the front label. Before I got my hands on it, it was unoficially upgraded to an ND-120/CX. When driving to Eidsvoll with a friend picking up an IMSAI for another friend, I wanted to withdraw some cash from an ATM - and what should I find in a junk pile but this ND-110/CX? After taking it home, I power it up, and voila - SINTRAN boots! I don't have the SYSTEM password, but an ND guru by name of Jonny Oddene fixes this for me :)

Later, he finds a spare Ethernet card and ND-5700 CPU! Yay! However, the backplane is the wrong revision for the Ethernet board, and the 5700 lacks microcode. I hope to fix this the next time I meet JOO.

It has 8MB I/O RAM, 32 MB ND-5000 RAM, SCSI, a 5.25" HD floppy drive, and three disks. (PACK-TWO and PACK-THREE were fairly old disks, and gave up the ghost.)

It is not Y2K compatible. (Note: Patches do exist. I hope to apply them at some point.)

Videos

I have some short videos of me trying to power up the machine for the first, second, and third time...

Note: while taking the last movie, I mistakenly refer to the machine as a '10. I was tired :)

Pictures

Power supply

This is the power supply for the machine. It outputs an impressive 120A at 5V.

Front status panel

This is the rather boring substitute for the blinkenlights of their earlier machines.

It (normally) shows day of month, time, system utilization, cache hit rate, active level, and whether Interrupts and Paging are active.

The machine itself

This is the machine itself! Ain't it a beauty... The badge says 110, but the CPU inside is 120, a faster version with 4MB onboard RAM.

The cards

The cards in the backplane - the titles are readable ... with effort.

The cards

The ND seen from behind.

Terminal port attachments This is the dual-tech serial port array - both current loop and RS-232.