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"The NORD-42 is an OEM version of the NORD-12 system. It was manufactured for Noratom-Norcontrol A/S."

So the NORD-42 is not a separate design; it is a rebadged NORD-12 built for one customer. That customer matters: Norcontrol is the same company that took the very first NORD-1, serial 2, for the anti-collision system on M/S Taimyr.

Norcontrol used it as the central processor in their DATABRIDGE system, and it also went into ship simulators at maritime schools in Norway and abroad, including China and Mexico.

Its three cited sources are all outside our reach: a Norcontrol SERVICE HANDBOOK, a chapter of Handbuch fuer die Schiffsfuehrung, and page 16 of Ingenioeren number 45, November 1980.

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The NORD-42 is an OEM version of the NORD-12 system. It was manufactured for Noratom-Norcontrol A/S.[1]

Norcontrol used the NORD-42 as the central processor in their DATABRIDGE system. [2] It was also used in simulators on a number of maritime schools both in Norway and other places as China and Mexico.[3]

Course manager at Norcontrol Horten, Tarald Frette, testing a NORD-42

Sources

  • ^ SERVICE HANDBOOK Vol 1
  • ^ Chapter 4, Volume 1 / C of the series Handbuch f?r die Schiffsf?hrung pp 251-275
  • ^ Page 16, Ingenioeren, nr 45, November 1980