Catalogue description Records of the Electronic Applications Division

Details of Division within PV
Reference: Division within PV
Title: Records of the Electronic Applications Division
Description:

Electronic Applications Division, registered files (LM Series), are in PV 6.
Date: 1972-1983
Related material:

Records of the Computers, Systems and Electronics Division are in: PV 1
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Division was established to provide support to industry in the field of microprocessor (later micro-electronics) applications. It sponsored the electronic components industry, including electronic points of sale and vending machines, weighing machines and visual displays, the opto-electronics and electro-optics industries and the scientific instruments and electronic test and measuring instruments industries. The process was managed through various projects and schemes managed by the Division:- the Micro Application Project (MAP), the Electronics Components Industry Scheme (ECIS), the Micro-electronics Industry Support Programme (MISP), the Computer Aided Design Manufacturing and Testing Scheme (CADMAT), the Fibre Optics and Opto-Electronics Support Scheme (FOS) and the Joint Opto Electronics Research Scheme (JOERS).

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