[Info-vax] Compaq or Fujitsu PC with WPS style keyboard

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:50:22 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2012-01-20 07:07, urbancamo wrote:
>> I worked as a contractor at the British Gas Research and Development
>> Centre in Loughborough UK between 1996 and 1999. Before it was retired
>> in favo(u)r of Lotus Notes (yuk) ALLIN1 was being used as the
>> enterprise-wide office tool. The PC's we used were compact desktops,
>> and had keyboards with the WPS plus key legends.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me as to what model these desktops would have
>> been? I always thought they were Fujitsu built, but it would make more
>> sense if they had come from Compaq.
> 
> Based on the timeframe, it would have made even more sense if they had
> come from DEC...
> 

Agreed about the timeframe, but Fujitsu would have had a large presence 
in the UK at the time due to their acquisition of ICL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu

"In 1990, Fujitsu acquired 80% of the UK-based computer company 
International Computers Limited (ICL) for $1.29 billion*



-- 
Paul Sture