[1] It opened a sales, support and repair arm in the UK in 1972, based at Hertford House, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

[3] They had previously opened a manufacturing and engineering development facility there in 1978 as a way to escape high California tax and labor rates.

[1] The PDC 808 announced circa July 1969 was designed for control, monitoring and/or data logging applications.

[4] In 1969, CA announced full production of the Model 816, a 16-bit general purpose computer[5] using TTL integrated circuits for logic and a 3D core memory.

There were number of options for data input, paper tape via a board called the utility controller which could also be used to drive other devices such as printers, etc.

The control unit PLA transformed the machine instructions and events into series of microinstructions to operate the ALU and related functions.

For one project, Gorman worked with AMD in the conceptualization of the Am2900 4-bit slice chip that was employed in Computer Automation's high-end processors and gained widespread acceptance in the marketplace.

Again the restrictions of the 16-bit address bus still meant memory banking was a necessity for memory-greedy applications.

The resulting product line was the 4/04, also known as the SCOUT (Small Computer Optimized for Use by the Thousands) or Naked Milli.

The 4/04 system used small (around 6 x 9 inches) circuit boards and made heavy used of PAL logic chips.

The marketing and engineering groups at Computer Automation realized this and proposed a new product line and direction for the company to be called "Triad".

This was to be based on Motorola microprocessors on the VME or Versa bus and running a Unix-based operating system.

Dave Methvin, the founder and president of the company was adamantly opposed to non-proprietary systems and architectures and killed the project.

Computer Automation consisted of three were divisions, firstly: In 1979, a production facility opened up at Clonshaugh in Dublin, taking advantage of tax concessions introduced by the Irish Government.