The computer division of Computer Consoles Inc, headquartered in Irvine, California was this week integrated fully into the ICL worldwide empire and renamed ICL North America, Business Systems. ICL claims that STC’s acquisition of Computer Consoles brought together that company’s expertise at turning Unix into the office-integration solution with ICL’s focus on setting international computer standards, and its technical and financial strengths as an international supplier of information systems. The newly-named company is particularly proud of the new Officepower 5.0 with PowerWindows, which began shipping last month and is claimed to be the first available Windows-based office automation package for cooperative processing among disparate personal computers and minicomputers. An Open Officepower strategy is aimed at integrating multiple vendors’ microcomputers, workstations and minicomputers in Officepower. The Communications Systems division – the telephony side of Computer Consoles, stays in Rochester, New York and reports to STC Telecommunications. There’s no word on the Waltham, Massachusetts former headquarters.
