Digital Canada gets MicroVAX Mandate

[newsbytes at clarinet.com]

KANATA, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1990 FEB 2 (NB) -- Digital Equipment of
Canada will manufacture MicroVAX and VAXserver 3100 systems at
its plant here for all world markets except Europe, the company
has announced.

The mandate to produce the systems for North America, the Far
East and other markets will compensate for declining production
volumes of the aging PDP-11 and VAX 8250 and 8350 systems in
Kanata, said David Paolini, a company spokesman at Digital
Canada's headquarters in Toronto. The new lines will not result
in additional jobs or require the plant to be expanded, he said,
as demand for the older systems is declining.

Digital will manufacture the MicroVAX and VAXserver 3100 in Ayr,
Scotland, for the European market, Paolini told Newsbytes.

(Grant Buckler/19900202/Press Contact: David Paolini, Digital
Equipment of Canada, 416-597-3529)