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COMPUTER TO AID BRS
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BRITISH Road Services Ltd. has bought a £110,000 ICT 1902 computer. It will be installed at Auchinlech House, Five Ways, Birmingham, next month.
This modernization step was taken after two years of intensive study of the problems and equipment available. BRS companies have an annual turnover in excess of 140 million and operate 11,000 vehicles with a total staff of 17,000.
BRS Parcels Ltd., which carries more than 100,000,000 packages a year, will also make considerable use of the computer.
The equipment will be introduced in three phases: firstly to carry out administrative procedures—such as payroll, sales, purchases and statistics; secondly to provide details of traffic flows and market movements; and thirdly, to give on-line control of vehicle schedules. BRS also intends to offer customers the use of VANTRAN, the latest development by ICT in network analysis of traffic movements.
The 1902 will have 65,536 characters of core storage, fast paper tape reader and paper tape punch, 1,350 lines per minute printer, six 20 KCs magnetic tape decks and four million characters of exchangeable disc storage.