Cranfield Institute of Technology’s Cranfield Data Systems – Cranfield, Bedfordshire, has developed a signal processing and data acquisition system around Concurrent Computer Corp’s Model 5550 real-time Unix machines, and has signed the Scientific Atlanta Spectral Dynamics Division to distribute the system worldwide on an exclusive basis except here in the UK, where the system will also be marketed by Cranfield. The Model 5550s, from the Masscomp side of the Tinton Falls, New Jersey house, will be used as the basis for turnkey engineering test and analysis workstations that will run the Cranfield software. The systems will be pitched at engineering test and spectrum analysis applications in aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery and defence markets where they will be used to study the structural characteristics and physical properties of engines, industrial machinery, completed assemblies or other types of equipment that may be subject to either mechanical or acoustic vibration. Concurrent Computer also has several orders in the UK, including a UKP150,000 order from International City Holdings, taking its real time Unix FinServer, which incorporates VMEbus, and Multibus. It runs on the 6000 family and operates over a range of networks. Bloomberg LP London, a securities broker, has also placed a UKP750,000 order for a ticker plant operation which will run on two 3280s, and Telerate is adding to its range of 3230 and 3210 computers in a multi-million pound deal. And Dublin, Ireland-based Lifetime Assurance had ordered a UKP675,000 3280 MPS system to handle 2,000 policies per month.
