Amdahl has installed two 5990-700s at the Midlands Electricity Board’s Central Accounting Unit at Kingswinford in the West Midlands: the machines replaced an Amdahl 5880 and 5890-200E, and operate in separate buildings loosely-coupled from a master computer suite; 1,500 office and shop terminals are connected to the system via the CICS teleprocessing monitor and MVS/XA operating system; Midlands Electricity plan to bring the systems together as a four-way 5990-1400, which will be used to run the company’s several information systems.
