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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