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Digico's first product was a laboratory data-logging and spectrum analyser hardware system named DIGIAC. This product had been developed before Digico was formed, so was an immediate source of income. Digico soon developed a 16-bit
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The Digico Micro 16V had a standard memory of 4k words with 950 nano second cycle time, expandable to 64k words, and able to support up to 64 external interfaces. It had an optional microprogrammed
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Digico primarily sold into the data logging market until 1969, when it expanded into areas like process control, stock control and front-end processors for the
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mainframe. In 1974 Digico had a turnover of over £1 million (equivalent to £13 million in 2023) and in 1977 well over £1 million.
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in this development. The first version produced was the Digico Micro 16S (1968), followed by the 16P (1970), then the 16V in 1972.
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In 1978 the Digico Micro 16E stackable minicomputer, which was well suited to an office environment, won a
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16-bit minicomputer, the Micro 16, which became available in 1966. Digico was assisted by the
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was a British computer company founded in 1965 by Keith Trickett and Avo Hiiemae, two ex-
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Digico quickly started developing a general purpose single
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series, the Micro 16, for which it was best known for.
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Index

Computer hardware
Stevenage
United Kingdom
Eric Lubbock
data loggers
minicomputers
ICL
Eric Lubbock
Letchworth
Stevenage
minicomputer
accumulator
Ministry of Technology
National Research Development Corporation
floating-point unit
executive
multiprogramming
semiconductor memory
magnetic-core memory
ICL 1900
Design Council
Computer Technology Limited
PDP-8




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