Word: aeg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies have established major plants in South Africa. They produce and market sophisticated equipment, much of it used by the regime's utilities, military forces and police. For example, IBM computers are used by the South African army and the regime's Atomic Energy Board. The West German company. AEG-Telefunken--of which General Electric (G.E.) owns about 15 per cent--supplied the regime's Simonstown military tracking system with sophisticated electronic equipment. ITT also provided equipment and recruited and trained engineers for the base...
...AEG-Telefunken...
...similar agreement may be in the works between Britain's International Computers Ltd. and Germany's AEG-Telefunken and Nixdorf Computer companies, all of which make computers that are incompatible with IBM's. ICL is the only European firm that is turning even a marginal profit on its computer operations-in no small mea sure because of some $80 million in government subsidies that it has received since its creation in 1968 by the merger of two smaller firms...
...head to head with IBM, Machines Bull (now Honeywell), Philips, Burroughs and Univac. Nixdorfs firm is the only European-based company that has consistently earned a profit from computers throughout the past two decades. Lately, the directors of one major manufacturer decided that he must be doing something right: AEG-Telefunken last December placed its computer interests in a fifty-fifty partnership with Nixdorf; the two companies have formed a joint subsidiary to develop and produce large computers...