Stansaab Explained

Stansaab AS 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.

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Notes and References

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