Although the San Antonio, Texas headquarters of Datapoint Corp denied all knowledge of any previous OEM agreements signed by the company for Unix systems, the European divisions are quick to point out that the OEM deal with Charles River Data Systems (CI No 859) has not sunk without trace at all: Datapoint offices in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland have been selling the machines very successfully since the deal was signed back in 1984, as data-entry systems and that the Algerian government has recently signed with the French office for $2m of the Charles River-based supermicros.
