The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1979)
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The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1979) was awarded on 21 April 1979, by Queen Elizabeth II.
Recipients
The following organisations were awarded this year.- GEC ComputersGEC ComputersGEC Computers Limited was the computer manufacturing company under the GEC holding company.-History:Starting life as Elliott Automation, the data processing computer products were transferred to ICT/ICL and non-computing products to English Electric as part of a reorganisation of the parent company...
of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire for the design of the GEC 4000 seriesGEC 4000 seriesThe GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd. of the UK during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.- History :...
minicomputers.