Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly (Copy)

Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly (Copy)

Univac announce a number of new systems and add-ons from the low-entry 1100/10 system with a new Uniservo 14 mag tape sub-system and a new disk drive for 90/30 users, Ferranti is developing a heading and attitude reference system, HARS, for the Sea Harrier aircraft, EMI winds a £2 million contract to supply body scanners to the NHS, Home Office are consulting on a new system to handle mobile radio operator licences (e.g. Taxis) to speed up the current 4 month waiting time, Texas Instruments announce their 990/9900 family 16-bit microprocessors together with the first 16Kbit RAM, Intel release the in-65, a one megabit memory system to replace drum and disk sub-systems, ICL announce their low-end 2903/20 system, aimed at small businesses, which is a scaled down version of the 2903, which is now called the 2903/40, CAA award Plessey a £2 million contract to supply PDP-11 based systems for their PRDS (Processed Radar Display System) to replace the existing IBM 9020D, and British Rail open their IBM 370/168 based TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) designed to manage over 300,000 freight train wagons on their network.

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Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly

Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly

The first Ferranti 700S minicomputer for data communications was delivered to British Steel, US company Corning Glass has released a PDP8 based Larc (leucocyte automatic recognition counter) system for while blood cell analysis, US company Electronic Associates Inc supply a nuclear power plant operator training simulator using Systems Engineering Lab System 32 medium scale computers, UK company Real Time Controls releases a Point Of Sale system based on Data General’s Nova 2/10 systems, a low-cost OCR readre from Datatype Corp of Miami, Florida is now being sold by British Airways, Police get a Honeywell 6025 based crime information collating system, The Post Office announce the GEC 4080 will be used to run the Viewdata service, an interactive information system via the public switched network, in competition with BBC’s CeeFax and IBA;s Oracle services.

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