Catalogue description Records of the Electronic Applications Division
Reference: | Division within PV |
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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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