| 1939 |
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Low's Calculators Ltd incorporated at 180 Tottenham Court Road |
| 1961 |
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Systemation Ltd incorporated with Bill Gannon as MD |
| 1962 |
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Low's Calculators Ltd becomes Business Mechanisation Ltd with Bill Heselton as MD |
| 1962 |
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Systemation's BETSIE launched |
| 1963 |
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Systemation's SADIE launched at Business Efficiency Exhibition, Olympia |
| 1964 |
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Business Mechanisation Ltd becomes Bismec Ltd and later Bismec Group Ltd
Joint production and marketing deal between Systemation Ltd and Bismec Ltd
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| 1969 |
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Systemation and Business Mechanisation Ltd together incorporate Business Computers Ltd
Business Computers Ltd in Public Share offering - 700,000 ordinary 2/- shares for sale at 21/- each - oversubscribed by 40% |
| 1972 |
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Molecular 18 Mark One launched |
| 1974 |
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Business Computers Ltd in receivership |
| 1975 |
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Computer World Trade Ltd buy Business Computers Ltd |
| 1976 |
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Ex-Singer management buy into BCL and Mike Munnelly takes over as MD |
| 1977 |
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Allied Business Systems Ltd take over production of Molecular-18 and BCL launched the Mark IV |
| 1981 |
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Business Computers (Systems) Ltd become Business Computers (Systems) Plc with a public launch |
| 1984 |
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Business Computers (Systems) Plc suffer a bad year |
| 1986 |
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Electronic Data Processing Plc buy Business Computers Plc |
