The GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. GEC Computers...
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pulled back into the GEC 4080. The company's main product was the GEC 4000 series minicomputers, which were used by many other GEC and Marconi companies...
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Marconi Electronic Systems (redirect from GEC Marconi)
Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC and bought by British...
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whereas OS6000 was a port of the OS4000 operating system from the GEC 4000 series (under pressure from the marketing department, concerned about compatibility...
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Following GEC's purchase VSEL became Marconi Marine (VSEL), part of the company's GEC-Marconi division. With the merger of British Aerospace and GEC's defence...
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Gemini Galaxy Gemini Challenger GEC GEC 2050 GEC 4000 series GEC Series 63 Grundy NewBrain ICL ICL 2900 Series ICL Series 39 One Per Desk Jupiter Ace Memotech...
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British Thomson-Houston (redirect from GEC Turbines (Rugby))
identities were maintained until 1960. The holding company, AEI, was bought by GEC in 1967. In the 1960s AEI's apprenticeships were highly thought-of, both...
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General Electric Company (redirect from GEC plc)
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering...
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Corporation 4000 series people mover for the Busan Metro CTA 4000 series, a series of Chicago "El" rolling stock GEC 4000 series, a series of minicomputers...
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The GEC-Marconi scientist deaths theory claims that between 1982 and 1990 a number of British-based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on...
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plc (GEC), was founded in August 1998 through the amalgamation of GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) with other GEC subsidiaries: Marconi SpA, GEC Hong...
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GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) was a British manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, notably the System X telephone exchange. The company...
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September 1961 as GEC Telecommunications Limited, a division of the GEC conglomerate. In 1988 the division became part of the GEC Plessey Telecommunications...
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autonomous I/O, and used the same peripheral I/O controllers as the GEC 4000 series minicomputer. Although CISC, the instruction set is sufficiently simple...
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service. Btx originally required special hardware (it was based on GEC 4000 series computers) which had to be bought or rented from the British General...
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language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for...
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initially developed by GEC-Marconi Defence Systems, formerly operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was developed by GEC-Marconi Defence Systems,...
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school of computing is based The Babbage programming language for GEC 4000 series minicomputers "Babbage", The Economist 's Science and Technology blog...
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Marconi Company (section Expansion as GEC subsidiary)
primary defence subsidiary of GEC, GEC-Marconi. Marconi was renamed GEC-Marconi in 1987. During the period 1968–1999 GEC-Marconi/MES underwent significant...
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Computers GEC 2050 GEC 4000 series GEC Series 63 OS4000 Locomotives British Rail Class 91 GEC Stephenson locomotive South African Class 4E South African...
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W & T Avery (redirect from GEC Avery)
Having been taken over by GEC in 1979 the company was later renamed into GEC-Avery. The company became Avery Berkel in 1993 when GEC acquired the Dutch company...
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GEC Traction Limited was a British industrial company formed in 1972 which designed and manufactured electric traction equipment for railway rolling stock...
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Tracor (section GEC takeover)
as a major expansion of GEC's defence division, GEC-Marconi (later Marconi Electronic Systems), however seven months later GEC announced the demerger of...
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at Wythenshawe, Manchester. The factory opened in 1957, and was closed by GEC in 1971, after which it was sold to the American compressor manufacturer...
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merger of GEC-Marconi Radar and Defence Systems and Alenia Difesa. Equal shares in the resulting company were then held by Finmeccanica, and GEC-Marconi...
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Ruston & Hornsby (section GEC and Alstom)
the gas turbine division of GEC. GEC then merged its heavy engineering division with Alsthom of France, becoming part of GEC-Alsthom in 1989, which changed...
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Proprietary closed general purpose defunct 68000 GEC DOS Proprietary closed process control defunct GEC 4000 series DSOS Proprietary closed ? defunct TI-980A...
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graphics workstations in April 1989. GEC Computers used the MC88100 to build the GEC 4310, one of the GEC 4000 series computers, but issues with memory management...
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the Xerox Star and Xerox 1108 Lisp machine. Several models of the GEC 4000 series minicomputers: 4060, 4150, 4160 (four Am2901 each, 16-bit ALU), and...
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