Checking on defence equipment: The performance of a variety of military equipment under development by the Ministry of Defence is to be assessed and recorded with the aid of specialised database management software now in the final stages (…)

EMI-Scanner system for whole body: Following the worldwide success of the EMI-Scanner brain X-ray system, which has a current sales level of £25 million per annum, EMI is now to develop another computerised X-ray system for examination of all parts of (…)

Locus 16s for radar check: A system for evaluating the operation of plot extractors at radar stations has been developed by Marconi, using modules from its Locus 16 system. One such unit is to be supplied to the Civil Aviation Authority under a £75,000 contract (…)

Tote orders in France, Spain: Two orders with a sporting flavour have been won by UK firms. Already a major supplier of totalisator equipment to French horse race tracks, Bell Punch, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, has won an £85,000 order for 50 (…)

Fairchild high density memory: Claimed to represent a “significant advance in the density of solid-state memory”, a charge-coupled memory is to be put into large-scale production by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp in the US by autumn this year. Known as (…)

PoS comes to the petrol pumps: Point-of-sale processing now looks like being extended to petrol service stations with the launching of an electronic pump system, the Avery-Hardoll Mark IV. This can be interfaced with digital data loggers (…)

RCA’s latest laser beam: With so many potential applications for small, accurate and powerful optical scanner data capture devices, RCA in the US has developed a document reader using a one millionth cubic inch semiconductor diode (…)

Rockwell launches 8-bit micro system: An eight-bit microprocessor is now on offer for evaluation from Rockwell International, and two new European companies are to introduce minicomputers built around it. Designated the PPS-8, for parallel processing system (…)