As well as that UKP8m two-year contract with the UK Department of Social Security (see page five inside), Apricot Computers Plc has an OEM order, believed to be worth UKP7m for an initial 5,000 Micro Channel Architecture machines, from an unidentified West German company which isn’t Nixdorf Computer: possibles include AEG AG, Siemens AG and Schneider Rundfunkwerke GmbH.