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You don't say where you are located, please enter at least a country in your profile, it helps in so many ways to know where our members are.
The price sounds about right for a good D1, budget for a second (new) battery! ~ $35 Battery Barn used to be the place to go, I am guessing the price was in $ not £? Do you realise it was well over $5,000 when it was new?
Sounds like you are well kitted out for lenses. Most of the older lenses work well with a D1. remember you are only using the centre of the image circle, imagine a crop factor 1.5, which means effectively a 50mm lens produces an image that a 75mm lens would have on film. This is great on the longer lenses giving you a built in TC converter, however as you may realise it's a snag at the wide end, a 20mm lens is no longer as wide as it was! Most of us have a Sigma 10-20 in our bags to deal with this shortcoming, (pun intended!).
If you still have any pre Ai lenses which have not been converted, DO NOT try to mount them. You can wreck the camera aperture control, the lens may mount but removing it could involve dismantling the camera.
In my opinion the biggest benefit of digital apart from the 'free film' of course, is the histogram, you can take several exposures and vary the settings to get exactly the correct exposure. I use the histo on every exposure, sometimes you need to adjust the compensation to correct the settings for given conditions.
I use D1, D1x and D200 depending on the job in hand and tend towards the older, manual lenses.
The exposure latitude is comparable with chromes, not as much freedom as negative stock.
Regarding ISO settings the base setting for digital is ISO 200 with the D1 ISO400 is really tops unless you like digital noise.
Lastly you may find the images have a magenta cast, that can be dealt with in post processing. You will need a good processor to organise and process your images. I strongly recommend Adobe Lightroom. It covers most of your needs, organising and adjusting, processing NEF's and outputting to slideshows, websites and print.
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Robert.