Tote orders in France, Spain: Two orders with a sporting flavour have been won by UK firms. Already a major supplier of totalisator equipment to French horse race tracks, Bell Punch, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, has won an £85,000 order for 50 (…)

Fairchild high density memory: Claimed to represent a “significant advance in the density of solid-state memory”, a charge-coupled memory is to be put into large-scale production by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp in the US by autumn this year. Known as (…)

PoS comes to the petrol pumps: Point-of-sale processing now looks like being extended to petrol service stations with the launching of an electronic pump system, the Avery-Hardoll Mark IV. This can be interfaced with digital data loggers (…)

RCA’s latest laser beam: With so many potential applications for small, accurate and powerful optical scanner data capture devices, RCA in the US has developed a document reader using a one millionth cubic inch semiconductor diode (…)

Rockwell launches 8-bit micro system: An eight-bit microprocessor is now on offer for evaluation from Rockwell International, and two new European companies are to introduce minicomputers built around it. Designated the PPS-8, for parallel processing system (…)

InterScan handles Barclaycard task: Sales vouchers from shops and other outlets accepting Barclaycards provide the bulk of the source data now being captured for computer processing by three InterScan 2100 key-to-disc systems with a total of 76 VDU key-stations (…)

PoS market bid by Sweda: With big hopes of securing a sizeable share of the still largely untapped European point-of-sale market, Litton Sweda has introduced a completely new PoS system, the 800/80, as a world-wide replacement for the 700 series. With powerful interactive (…)

Progress towards a PoS code system: The development of a Standard Product Numbering System, SPNS, by the UK grocery trade has taken another step forward with the decision by the SPNS steering group, set up by the Institute of Grocery Distribution, to follow the recommendations of the report into the feasibility of SPNS published last October. The report, produced (…)