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An ICL 2966 Model 39. The ICL 2900 Series was a range of mainframe computer systems announced by the British manufacturer International Computers Limited on 9 October 1974. The company had started development under the name "New Range" immediately on its formation in 1968.
International Computers Limited (ICL) was a British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002. It was formed through a merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), English Electric Computers (EEC) and Elliott Automation in 1968.
ICL continued development of the software independently of Cullinane, selling the original ported product under the name ICL 2900 IDMS and an enhanced version as IDMSX. In this form it was used by many large UK users, an example being the Pay-As-You-Earn system operated by Inland Revenue.
Oral history interview with Arthur L. C. Humphreys (1981), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.Humphreys, a former managing director of ICL, reviews the history of the British computer industry, including the merger in 1959 of British Tabulating Machine Company and the Powers Samas company into International Computers and Tabulators, Ltd. (ICT), and the merger in 1968 of English ...
Every user of the system had a home directory with as many sub directories as needed under it. A users home directory could be accessed directly, for example the directory for user JOHN could be referred to as :JOHN, or by a full path, for example if JOHN was in the computer science department his home directory might be :MANAGER.USERS.COMPSCI ...
The DRS 6000 was the result of the UNICORN project, initiated in December 1987 by the newly formed Advanced Servers Product Centre in Bracknell, to design a UNIX product for manufacture at ICL's facility in Ashton that would combine state-of-the-art technology with adherence to recognised open standards.
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