Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly
/73 international banks set-up a new message switching network to replace an ageing telex service, GEC-Elliott 905 helps develop fishing net use, DEC launches new ECG analysis systems based on PDP-11 technology, Burroughs introduced the TD 700, a revolutionary new flat-screen display terminal, Cambridge university introduces the first infra-red data transmission link which links their IBM 1130 with a central IBM 370/165 over 1/2 a mile away using a DEC PDP-11/20 as the front-end processor and Eight HP 2116C based gas chromatograph drug detection systems will be used at the Olympic Games.
Brian Aldous – TNMoC Archivist
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