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==Further reading==
==Further reading==


* John Hendry, ''Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990 - EMI's story is covered in some depth in Chapter 8
* John Hendry, ''Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990 - EMI's story is covered in some depth in Chapter 9


==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 13:55, 27 September 2026

EMI Electronics was a British electronics company, a part of the parent, Electric and Musical Industries. One division, the Computer Division, started to produce transistor computers at the end of the 1950s; it produced two main computer products:

It was merged into ICT in 1962; in the aftermath, the EMIDEC 1100 was re-badged to the ICT 1101.

Further reading

  • John Hendry, Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990 - EMI's story is covered in some depth in Chapter 9

External links