Now that it has looked over exactly what it acquired with the Gould Computer Systems business, Encore Computer Corp, now headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has decided that Gould’s original 32-bit minicomputer business – the Concept/32s is the only part of the company really worth persisting with, and the Powernodes, NP-1s and Gould’s other departures from the straight and narrow will presumably be phased out. Encore plans to pitch the Concept/32s at the real-time market for flight simulation, range and telemetry and energy distribution systems, while it will concentrate on its own Multimax parallel Unix machines for the business market, concentrating on da$aRase applications, the Pick operating system, high performance servers and parallel processing research. New The Real-time and Information Systems sales groups have been established for the two lines, both to be headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. The switches will cost 100 jobs, mainly in manufacturing, and the Puerto Rico board plant will close in October, the work moving to Melbourne, Florida.
