About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Companies associated with ICL, ICL mainframe computers, ICL operating systems, ICL people, ICL programming languages, ICL workstations, LEO, ICL VME, GEORGE, Elliott 803, English Electric KDF8, PERQ, Computer Consoles Inc., ICL DRS, Ferranti-Packard, Conway Berners-Lee, ICL 2900 Series, Standard Telephones and Cables, English Electric KDF9, ICT 1301, Southampton BASIC System, Regnecentralen, CADES, Elliott Brothers, Peter Bonfield, Jack Howlett, John Pinkerton, One Per Desk, International Computers and Tabulators, ICL Distributed Array Processor, Content Addressable File Store, ICL Series 39, ICL 7500 series, Brian Warboys, DAP FORTRAN, Powers-Samas, British Tabulating Machine Company, Michael Kay, Tomo Razmilovic, Ian Ritchie, Arthur Humphreys, MINIMOP, Filetab, ICL Direct Machine Environment, English Electric System 4, S3, Three Rivers Computer Corporation, JEAN, Transaction Processing Management System, Order code processor, STAPLE, PLAN. Excerpt: International Computers Ltd, or ICL, was a large British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002 when it was renamed Fujitsu Services Limited after its parent company, Fujitsu. The company's most successful product line was the ICL 2900 Series range of mainframe computers. In later years, ICL attempted to diversify its product line but the bulk of its profits always depended on the mainframe customer base. New ventures included marketing a range of powerful IBM clones made by Fujitsu, various minicomputer and personal computer ranges and (more successfully) a range of retail point-of-sale equipment and back-office software. Despite significant sales in overseas markets, ICL was always dependent on large contracts from the UK public sector. Significant customers included Post Office Ltd, the Inland Revenue, th...
