Departmental Systems
For many years ICL marketed departmental computers under the 'DRS' brand, standing originally for Distributed Resource System. During the mid 80s separate Office Systems business units had produced a disparate range of products including IBM-compatible PCs such as the PWS (an AT Clone), small servers branded DRS, and various larger Unix servers sold under the Clan range. A re-branding in late 1988 pulled these together under the DRS brand, with a consistent grey and green livery.
In the mid 1980s ICL developed the DRS 300 in Kidsgrove, and ran down Utica.
In 1994 the DRS range was superseded by the SuperServer and TeamServer ranges of SPARC and Intel-based machines, running Unix or Microsoft operating systems.
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