Stansaab
Stansaab AS was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside Stockholm, Sweden. The company was a joint venture between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT), Saab-Scania, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications.[1] In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of Facit.[2]
In 1978, it was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to create Datasaab.[3] In 1981, Ericsson, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS).[4]
One of the most successful products of the company was the Alfaskop range of data terminals.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Flightglobal archive 1972". Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ^ a b Göte Wiklund. "A history of the Alfaskop terminal" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ^ "Short history of SRT, Stansaab and Datasaab" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ^ Enrico Baraldi. "Ericsson, the Technology Integrator for the Office of the Future: EIS AB and Dreams on Computer-Telecom Convergence in the 1980s" (PDF). Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Retrieved 2008-10-29.