A file of documents relating to the merger between ICL and Futjitsu in 1981 comprised of:

• Full Press announcement of the major collaboration in mainframe computers, dated 7 October 1981
• A company announcement titled 'ICL announces major collaborative agreement with Fujitsu, dated 7 October 1981
• Company announcement titled 'Briefing notes for managers'
• An agreement between ICL and Fujitsu questions and answers document
• A newspaper cutting from The Independent titled 'A marriage of convenience' by Martin Campbell-Kelly relating to the merger
• An article in Gazette titled 'Fujitsu Deal is announced', dated August 1990
• Correspondence between David Caminer and Gordon Brown, including a a handwritten note from Brown, opposing the merger and the selling off of British mainframe computer industry
• Press release written by David Caminer
• A speech from the floor at the STC Extraordinary General Meeting on 16 August 1990
• A speech made by David Caminer tiled 'Farewell to Britain's Computer Industry', 16 August 1990
• A letter from STC PLC to David Caminer relating to STC pension plan, 31 July 1990
• A proposal relating to ICL and interim results for the first six months
• A recommended Offer by Baring Brothers & Co., Limited on behalf of Northern Telecom PLC for STC PLC
• A document of the full details of the recommended offer

Provenance :
Transferred from Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, to The Centre of Computing History on 18 April 2019