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    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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  • 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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  • OS4000 (redirect from GEC DOS)
    operating system introduced by GEC Computers Limited in 1977 as the successor to GEC DOS, for its range of GEC 4000 series 16-bit, and later 32-bit, minicomputers...
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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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    The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) was a British manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, notably the System X telephone exchange. The company...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Prestel's computers were based on the GEC 4000 series minicomputer. The main IRC machines were originally model GEC 4082s equipped with 384 Kbyte memory-core...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Simpson's inside knowledge of BAe, a long-rumoured GEC bid target, was a key to his appointment. GEC favours forging a national 'champion' defence group...
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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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  • British company GEC-Marconi after the payment of a balance by the latter. The new company was 50.1% owned by Thomson-CSF and 49.9% by GEC-Marconi. Denis...
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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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  • 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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  • The Hirst Research Centre, also known as the GEC Hirst Research Centre or GEC Research Laboratories, was established in 1919 at Wembley, Middlesex, by...
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