Norsk Data

Norsk Data
IndustryComputer hardware, Computer software
FoundedAugust 8, 1967 (1967-08-08)
FoundersLars Monrad Krohn, Per Bjørge, Rolf Skår
Defunct1992
FatePurchased by Telenor
SuccessorTelenor
Headquarters,
ProductsMinicomputer
Number of employees
over 4,500 (1987)

Norsk Data was a minicomputer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded in 1967 and dissolved in 1992. Its most active period was from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. At the company's peak in 1987, it was the second largest company in Norway and employed over 4,500 people.

Norsk Data has long been a producer software systems. They developed the NORD-1, the first minicomputer to have memory paging as a standard option, as well as the first machine to have floating-point instructions standard, the NORD-5, the world's first 32-bit minicomputer (preceding VAX, often claimed the first, by 6 years).