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3 unusual facts about International Computers and Tabulators


International Computers and Tabulators

Before the merger, under BTM, this had been known as the HEC4 (Hollerith Electronic Computer, fourth version).

International Computers and Tabulators or ICT was formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and Powers-Samas.

Humphreys, a former managing director of ICL, reviews the history of the British computer industry, including the merger in 1959 of British Tabulating and the Powers Samas companies into International Computers and Tabulators, Ltd. (ICT), and the merger in 1968 of English Electric Computers Limited and ICT into ICL.



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