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ATM network in Saudi Arabia
ATM network in Saudi Arabia An advanced Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) network is to be installed in Saudi Arabia for Albank Alsaudi Alhollandi. Under the contract Logica will supply the ON/2 retail funds transfer product to run on Stratus fault tolerant hardware. The initial network will consist of 15 NCR 5070 ATMs to be supported by ON/2.
One of the major requirements of the system is that it should support a choice of English or Arabic displays and receipts. ON/2 will decide which type of script is required from information encoded on the magnetic strip on users' cards and will provide assistance to users of the
ATMs via an interactive voice responder. Voice assistance will be in either English or Arabic. In addition to this dual language capacity, the system will provide some advanced facilities that are relatively unusual in Saudi Arabia, such as display of fixed deposit and foreign exchange rates, chequebook requests and transfer between related accounts. The configuration of the system for Albank Alsaudi Alhollandi has been designed to manage different networks of ATMs which are presently offered to corporate customers through inhouse banking facilities. (Logica plc, 64 Newman Street, London WIA 4SE, UK. Tel: 01637 9111, telex: 27200) []
Microcomputer network for council's housing department Bolton Metropolitan Borough has installed a microcomputer network in its Housing Department. The system, supplied by Broadsword Systems, consists of a Novell multiuser network using Televideo Personal Minis with Omicron Stock Control. Up to 16 workstations will be connected to the network, together with five of the Department's remote depots, through modem links. A
similar link will connect the Council's mainframe to the network so that job information can be extracted for contract estimation and stores control. The Council is also using the multiuser database language Sensible Solutions to develop contract estimating. (Broadsword Systems Ltd, 14-15 Queensbrook, Spa Road, Bolton BL1 4AY, UK. Tel: (0204) 397838, telex: 628761) []
Car rental group orders multimicro system A contract worth around £60 000 has been signed by Godfrey Davies Europcar with ROCC Corn puters for a ROCC 2820 multimicro system. Applications to be moved over from the existing ROCC system include cash allocation to the sales ledger in real-time, a deposit control system and a budget projection for the UK network. Master file enquiries are available for credit control on
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customer files, sales ledger, rates and payments. Vouchers are printed and controlled for travel agents. The ROCC 2820 will also produce tapes for the NCRso that the data can be transferred on to floppy discs for GDE's European charge card operation based in France. (ROCC Computers Ltd, Kelvin Way, Crawley, WestSussex RHIO 2LY, UK. Tel: (0293) 31211, telex: 877369) []
Stock Exchange upgrade The Stock Exchange has ordered MODCOMP communications equipment. Behind this move is the ever-increasing demand on the Stock Exchange'sTOPIC market information service, and the subsequent need for greater system capacity, and availability. TOPIC provides a variety of UK and overseas share price and market information services to around 5 000 users. The system operates on a hierarchical network of MODCOMP 32-bit minicomputers, and has been configured to support around 6 500 users. This microprocessor based subsystem offloads key processing tasks from the central processor to line interface modules. The net effect of this is to allow considerably increased connectivity with no degradation to the performance of the system. Under the TOPIC configuration, a maximum of 1000 terminals can be connected to each MODCOMP processor, using MODCOMP's existing UCS subsystem. DCS has the capability of increasing the network capacity of the system and it is this potential which is being fully analysed by the Stock Exchange. (MODCOMP, The Business Centre, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berks RG11 2JQ, UK. Tel: (0734) 786808, telex: 849149) []
Emulation package Under an agreement signed between British Olivetti and Systime Computers, Systime will supply Olivetti with an emulation package called Trans-basic. Trans-basic is an emulation package which enables applications software written for PDP-11 hardware in Basic-plus under the RSTS/E operating system, to run under Unix. (Systime Computers Ltd, Millshaw Science Park, Leeds LSll OLT, UK. Tel: (0532) 702277, telex: 556283) []
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One of the major requirements of the system is that it should support a choice of English or Arabic displays and receipts. ON/2 will decide which type of script is required from information encoded on the magnetic strip on users' cards and will provide assistance to users of the
ATMs via an interactive voice responder. Voice assistance will be in either English or Arabic. In addition to this dual language capacity, the system will provide some advanced facilities that are relatively unusual in Saudi Arabia, such as display of fixed deposit and foreign exchange rates, chequebook requests and transfer between related accounts. The configuration of the system for Albank Alsaudi Alhollandi has been designed to manage different networks of ATMs which are presently offered to corporate customers through inhouse banking facilities. (Logica plc, 64 Newman Street, London WIA 4SE, UK. Tel: 01637 9111, telex: 27200) []
Microcomputer network for council's housing department Bolton Metropolitan Borough has installed a microcomputer network in its Housing Department. The system, supplied by Broadsword Systems, consists of a Novell multiuser network using Televideo Personal Minis with Omicron Stock Control. Up to 16 workstations will be connected to the network, together with five of the Department's remote depots, through modem links. A
similar link will connect the Council's mainframe to the network so that job information can be extracted for contract estimation and stores control. The Council is also using the multiuser database language Sensible Solutions to develop contract estimating. (Broadsword Systems Ltd, 14-15 Queensbrook, Spa Road, Bolton BL1 4AY, UK. Tel: (0204) 397838, telex: 628761) []
Car rental group orders multimicro system A contract worth around £60 000 has been signed by Godfrey Davies Europcar with ROCC Corn puters for a ROCC 2820 multimicro system. Applications to be moved over from the existing ROCC system include cash allocation to the sales ledger in real-time, a deposit control system and a budget projection for the UK network. Master file enquiries are available for credit control on
vol 9 no 5 october 1986
customer files, sales ledger, rates and payments. Vouchers are printed and controlled for travel agents. The ROCC 2820 will also produce tapes for the NCRso that the data can be transferred on to floppy discs for GDE's European charge card operation based in France. (ROCC Computers Ltd, Kelvin Way, Crawley, WestSussex RHIO 2LY, UK. Tel: (0293) 31211, telex: 877369) []
Stock Exchange upgrade The Stock Exchange has ordered MODCOMP communications equipment. Behind this move is the ever-increasing demand on the Stock Exchange'sTOPIC market information service, and the subsequent need for greater system capacity, and availability. TOPIC provides a variety of UK and overseas share price and market information services to around 5 000 users. The system operates on a hierarchical network of MODCOMP 32-bit minicomputers, and has been configured to support around 6 500 users. This microprocessor based subsystem offloads key processing tasks from the central processor to line interface modules. The net effect of this is to allow considerably increased connectivity with no degradation to the performance of the system. Under the TOPIC configuration, a maximum of 1000 terminals can be connected to each MODCOMP processor, using MODCOMP's existing UCS subsystem. DCS has the capability of increasing the network capacity of the system and it is this potential which is being fully analysed by the Stock Exchange. (MODCOMP, The Business Centre, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berks RG11 2JQ, UK. Tel: (0734) 786808, telex: 849149) []
Emulation package Under an agreement signed between British Olivetti and Systime Computers, Systime will supply Olivetti with an emulation package called Trans-basic. Trans-basic is an emulation package which enables applications software written for PDP-11 hardware in Basic-plus under the RSTS/E operating system, to run under Unix. (Systime Computers Ltd, Millshaw Science Park, Leeds LSll OLT, UK. Tel: (0532) 702277, telex: 556283) []
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