systems support to workstation-intensive industries such as banking, transportation and retailing. The new system includes processors and programming developed and manufactured by Stratus Computer, Inc., under an agreement that provides IBM non-exclusive remarketing rights for selected Stratus products.

**Manufacturing systems**

Automated manufacturing processes received added attention in the last year as several new industrial computers and manufacturing software products were introduced.

An entry-level model of the IBM 5531 industrial computer enables small manufacturers to run many of their information-handling applications on the manufacturing floor. Designed for extended operation in areas prone to harsh conditions, the new unit can serve as an equipment controller, a tracking terminal for work in progress or a supervisory workstation.

Two more powerful industrial computers extend the performance available to customers

of IBM's industrial computer products. The IBM 7531 and 7532 computers can be used for tasks ranging from machine monitoring to distributed numerical control processing and production control.

Also announced were an industrial color graphics display designed for use in manufacturing environments, and program products that facilitate maintenance scheduling and communications with programmable controllers and other plant applications.

**Federal Systems Division**

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded the company's Federal Systems Division (FSD) a contract to upgrade the computer systems at the agency's 20 air traffic control centers around the U.S. Part of an FAA effort to modernize the air traffic system, the processors will aid flight controllers monitoring and directing aircraft flying between U.S. airports.

FSD also received two major contracts involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1985. One contract covers the definition and preliminary design of the data management system for the first permanently manned U.S. space station. The second calls for IBM to upgrade the computer system in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

**ROLM Corporation**

ROLM Corporation has been awarded a NASA contract valued at nearly $15 million to install a new business communications system at the Johnson Space Center. The contract calls for ROLM to install an advanced communications control system, digital telephones and desktop telecommunications devices, and a supporting cable and fiber optics distribution system.

ROLM introduced an enhanced version of its Central Attendant Service that enables customers to provide better telephone service to callers at a lower cost. Enhancements to the ROLM PhoneMail voice messaging system that increase its capacity, reliability and flexibility also were announced.

ROLM's Juniper II, a voice/data communications product which complements IBM Personal Computers, offers users voice and data features, including terminal emulation, one-touch log-on for data calls, two-way speakerphone and powerful digital telephone functions. Juniper II also allows PC users to transfer information to and from an IBM host computer or another PC at rates significantly higher than a standard modem.

The divestiture of ROLM's Mil-Spec Computer Division was completed in June. The division was acquired by the Loral Corporation of New York City. Sale of the unit fulfills the terms of the consent decree that ROLM and IBM entered into with the U.S. Department of Justice as a precondition of the companies' merger.

**Research and development**

A new one-million-bit computer memory chip that operates twice as fast as the company's previously announced one-million-bit chip

Air traffic controllers undergo training at the Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center near Atlantic City, N.J. IBM has been awarded a major contract to upgrade the computers supporting the system.