Christmas cheer was the order of the day at Wang Laboratories at the end of last month, when the Tennessee Valley Authority came up trumps with a $57.9m one-year contract for office automation equipment with four annual options to extend it for a further year; and for good measure, the US Department of Defense weighed in with a $200,000 contract to the Loweller for work on specifications for the Pentagon’s Secure Data Network System over the next six months.