A governmental study into the need for computing machinery in Sweden had been conducted in 1947 by initiative of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Naval Procurement Agency.
The study recommended the immediate purchase of computing machinery from the United States and a budget of 2 million SEK was allocated for the purpose.
The Swedish Board for Computing Machinery was established on November 26, 1948, to handle the purchase.
This was followed by the vacuum tube-based BESK, operational in 1954, which for a short time was the fastest computer in the world.
Some years before, FACIT had recruited many key employees from MMN to its new division for electronic computers.