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Alfaskop was a brand, developed in Sweden by Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT) and applied to data terminals and later IBM-compatible PCs. The term was also used to name Alfaskop AB, a listed Swedish IT services company., that filed for bankruptcy in 2001. ==History== SRT, owned by the ITT Corporation during the 1960s, specialised in Air Traffic Control systems and military radar systems. In 1971, SRT provided the core technology for Stansaab AS, a joint venture with Saab and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flightglobal archive 1972 )〕 To this was added the data terminal operations of Facit in 1972. The Alfaskop terminals quickly gained a foothold in the market for airline reservations with 1,000 in use at Scandinavian Airlines alone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flightglobal archive 1975 )〕 In 1978, Stansaab was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to form Datasaab.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Short history of SRT, Stansaab and Datasaab )〕 In 1981, Ericsson, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS). Accurately predicting convergence between telephony and data technologies, EIS instructed the Alfaskop group to begin working on a design for Ericsson's first PC – the EPC, which was released 16 months later in 1984.〔 Following market difficulties in the USA, particularly with a disappointing launch of its PC, Ericsson decided to abandon its "paperless office" strategy.〔 In 1988, the division was sold to Nokia and later to ICL in 1990.〔 The final act was its sale by ICL to Wyse Technology who eventually wound down manufacturing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfaskop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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