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Computer Weekly 639

Thursday, February 8, 1979

Price 18p

Publication Date : 8th February 1979

Publication Contents :

Page	Item
1	European preference gets thumbs down [Article] ICL managing director Dr Chris Wilson proposes that EEC governments should buy mainframes only from European suppliers; Dr Christopher Layton of the EEC Science and Technology directorate suggests this is impractical.
1	Strikes will hit all govt centres [Advert] A proposed civil service strike will shut down government computer centres on February 23.
2	Software support the deciding factor [Article] Gareth Jones Computerview column predicts changes in the computer market, saying that old divisions between different types of computer may soon no longer apply.
5	'Half-price' terminal for supermarkets [News Item] The M25 hand-held data entry terminal for supermarkets retails for £320, half the price of competing models
12	Brisk business at micro show [Article] Not credited Convention report from Microsystems 79, with coverage of new releases.
17	18,240 Megabytes of disc storage possible [News Item] IBM announces new disc drives for use with the 4300 series.
48	£2,000 reward for stolen micro system [News Item] Tube Investments is offering a reward for the return of £20,000 worth of computer equipment stolen from its Cambridgeshire laboratory.

Creator : IPC

Format : Tabloid

Physical Description : Newspaper

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH53856. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

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