Unisys Ltd has beaten off competition from IBM, ICL and Nixdorf to win UKP3m worth of orders for shop automation projects from three UK electricity boards: the largest order is for London Electricity which is to install 270 B28s and B26s linked to an IBM host; South Western Electricity is to install 250 BTOS stations […]
Unisys Ltd has beaten off competition from IBM, ICL and Nixdorf to win UKP3m worth of orders for shop automation projects from three UK electricity boards: the largest order is for London Electricity which is to install 270 B28s and B26s linked to an IBM host; South Western Electricity is to install 250 BTOS stations also linked to an IBM mainframe; the third order is from Northern Ireland Electricity where nearly 120 B28 workstations will be linked over an X25 packet-switched network to the board’s distributed Prime Computer minis and to its ICL mainframe.