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Nortel Collection
Historical Note:
The collection covers corporate activities of Northern Electric, Northern Telecom, Bell-Northern Research,
Nortel Networks, and Nortel.
Abbreviations:
- BNR: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- WC: W. Clipsham
- NT: Northern Telecom
- NOR: Nortel Networks
- WEC: Western Electric Company
- WB: material donated by Walter Banks
- KB: material donated by Keith Brickman
- HB: material donated by Henry Wiebe
- GR: material donated by Greg Reynolds
- ZS: material donated by Zbigniew Stachniak
- JM: material donated by John Morden
- RR: material donated by Robert Roden
HARDWARE
- Northern Telecom/Nortel Passport 50 DS1 MVPE module, [GR]
- Nortel Networks Passport 50 E3A FP module, [GR]
- Nortel Networks Passport 50 OC3S FP module, [GR]
- Nortel Networks Passport 50 CP module, [GR]
- Nortel's 1 MEG Modem, NTEX35AA, [ZS]
- Nortel Display Phone
- Northern Electric paper calculator, 1973 [JM]
- Dual NAND silicon microcircuit, Northern Electric, 1960s? [RR]
Corporate Documents
- Northern Telecom worldwide senior management structure, May 1983, [KB]
- Northern Telecom Inc., Major Business Units, May 1, 1985, [KB]
- Northern Electric Organization structure, September 1972. [KB]
NEWSLETTERS and MAGAZINES
- Northern Circuit, Northern Electric, Spring 1965. [KB]
- Northern News, Northern Electric,
vol. 44, no. 7 (1969). [JM]
- The Networks, Northern Electric,
September 1973. [JM]
- telesis, BNR
issues: vol. 3, no. 2 (1973) [WB],
vol. 4, no. 3 (1975),
vol. 5, no. 2 (1977) and no. 9 (1978) [WB],
vol. 6, no. 1 (1979) [WB],
vol. 8, no. 4 (1981),
issues 92, 93 (1991), 98 (1994). [WC]
- the, Northern Electric, Ottawa
issue 2 (1969), 4, 5 (1970). [WC]
- Miscellany, BNR
vol. 2, 3 (1987), 4, 5 (1988), 6, 7 (1989). [WC]
- Printed Circuit, Northern Telecom at Bramalea
vol. 18, no. 7 (1991). [JM]
- Lachine Journal, Northern Telecom at Lachine
no. 5 (1992). [JM]
- Network news, Northern Telecom
May 1992. [JM]
- Between-Us, Northern Telecom at Lachine and Laurentian
no. 4 (1993). [JM]
MANUALS, USER GUIDES, REPORTS, PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
- 1940-1949
- No. 1 Crossbar Dial Telephone System, Photographs, Educational Bulletin
No. 2.5, WEC, December 1947. [HW]
- 1950-1959
- No. 5 Crossbar Dial Telephone System, Completion of a Call, Educational Bulletin
No. 2.5 B-1, WEC, April 1954. [HW]
- The Step-By-Step Dial Telephone System, Telephone System Training, Lesson No. 3,
No. 2.5 B-1, WEC, June 1954. [HW]
- 1960-1969
- E.H. Lanham, A Brief Story of the Growth, Evolution, and Expansion of Telephone Systems from the
Magneto Era to the Present, Technical Memorandum TM 8161-2-64, Northern Electric, December 31st, 1964.
- Toronto Works, Telephone Directory, Northern Electric Company, Switching Division,
1 November 1966 [WBr]
1 Nov. 1966. [HB]
Preliminary Version, IPSA (29 November, 1970) [WK].
- 1970-1979
- Time to switch... SP-1 electronic switching systems, Northern Electric, October 1973. [JM]
- Datapac: Standard Network Access Protocol, Trans-Canada Telephone System, 30 November, 1974. [WC]
- Datapac: Overview, Trans-Canada Telephone System, 1974? [WC]
- An Introduction to GRAPPLE Programming, ver. 4.21, BNR 13490, July 1974. [WB]
- GRAPPLE Console Users Manual, ver. 1.0, BNR(?), 18 June, 1975. [WB]
- GRAPPLE Language Reference Manual, ver. 5.10, BNR 13500, June 1975. [WB]
- Datapac: Standard Network Access Protocol Specification, Trans-Canada Telephone System, 1976. [WC]
- Datapac: Four papers presented to the Third International Conference on Computer Communications,
Toronto, August 1976, Trans-Canada Telephone System, 1976. [WC]
- W. Clipsham, SL10 Data Network Processor: General Description, BNR, Issue 1, September 1976. [WC]
- D. Drynan, SL10 Data Network Processor: Trunk System, BNR, February 1977. [WC]
- Integrated Software Engineering System: Cost-Benefit Analysis, BNR, November 1978. [WC]
- Integrated Software Engineering System: Overview, BNR, November 1979. [WC]
- Integrated Software Engineering System: System Requirements Specification, BNR, November 1979. [WC]
- 1980-1989
- Writing Handbook, BNR, 1987. [WC]
- DPN: Data Networking System Reference Handbook, Northern Telecom, 1986. [WC]
- DPN-100: Data Networking Reference Handbook, Northern Telecom, 1988. [WC]
- Telephony, BNR, Technical Educational Department, 198?
- 1990-
- DPN-100/500: Data Networking General Description, Release 1.0, BNR, February 11, 1990. [WC]
- DPN: Data Networking System, BNR, October 1990. [WC]
PAPERS and OTHER MATERIAL
- Datapac and the SL-10 Packet Switching System: Selected Published Papers, 1976-79, BNR.
- Northern Telecom: The Anatomy of Transformation, 1985--1995, Nortel/Northern Telecom, November 1996. [WC]
- SINC Network Description, SINC Technical Document, Bell/BNR SINC Design Team, October 31, 1974. [WC]
- DPN Technical Papers 1985-1986, BNR. [WC]
- W.W. Clipsham, F.E. Glave, and M.L. Narraway, Datapac Network Overview, Proceedings of the
Third International Conference on Computer Communication, P.K. Verma (ed), Toronto. 3-6
August 1976; the material includes memos and slides prepared for the presentation. [WC]
- The BNR Network, 197? [WC]
- I. Cunningham, Host to Network Protocol for the Bell-Northern Research Network, version 1.2,
BNR, October 1973. [WC]
- B. Clipsham et al, First Level Protocol for a Data Switch, version V, August 14, 1972, CASE: R3777. [WC]
- C.C. Martel, I.M. Cunningham, and M.S. Grushcow, The BNR Network: A Canadian Experience with
Packet Switching Technology, BNR. [WC]
- B. Hobbs, {\it Chrysalis: Transforming The Way We Do Business}, Northern Telecom S321, September 19, 1991. [JM]
- 32 photographs of the Northern Telecom constructions at 8200 Dixie Rd. taken between
February 23 and December 8, 1987. [JM]
- Four photographs of the Northern Electric Calgary Cable Plant, 19?? [JM]
- Various promotional Nortel Networks brochures, 1995--2003. [ZS]
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