‘To ease their customers through the pangs of decimalisation, ICL are offering them file conversion programmes’, begins a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of May 28th 1969.
‘Programmes will be available for both the 1900 and System 4 Series of computers’, continues the story, ‘the majority of 1900 users have adopted standard housekeeping for magnetic tapes and discs and a file conversion package will be available in 1970 to handle nearly all files’.
The story ends: ‘At the same time as the packages were announced, Dr C.M.Wilson, ICL’s manager of UK Sales, stressed that if conversion was to be achieved before D-day, February 15th 1971, planning should be underway now.’
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