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Stansaab

Stansaab AB was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside Stockholm, Sweden. The company was a joint venture between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT), Saab-Scania, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications. In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of Facit.

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Stansaab AB was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside Stockholm, Sweden. The company was a joint venture between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT), Saab-Scania, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications.1 In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of Facit.2

In 1978, it was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to create Datasaab.3 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).4

One of the most successful products of the company was the Alfaskop range of data terminals.2

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  1. "Flightglobal archive 1972". Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  2. Göte Wiklund. "A history of the Alfaskop terminal" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  3. "Short history of SRT, Stansaab and Datasaab" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  4. Enrico Baraldi. "Ericsson, the Technology Integrator for the Office of the Future: EIS AB and Dreams on Computer-Telecom Convergence in the 1980s" (PDF). Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Retrieved 2008-10-29.