page_title: Logica
section_title: Logica VTS
hierarchical_section_title: Logica / History / Logica VTS
caption_attribution_description: English: In London. 84, Newman Street, the first silver-grey building going down the street on the left, housed the VTS group of British technology company Logica plc during the 1980s.
context_page_description: Logica plc was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, United Kingdom.
  Founded in 1969, the company had offices in London and in a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as in other countries around the world. It was responsible for many telecommunications infrastructure projects, such as the design of the SWIFT network for international money transfers, the Euronet packet-switching network, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco. Following the acquisition of CMG in 2002, the company was known as LogicaCMG from then until 2008, when it changed its name back to Logica. The company's main business at that point was in providing consulting, systems integration, and IT outsourcing in both the public and private sectors.
  Logica was acquired by Canada-based CGI Group in 2012 and the Logica brand name ceased being used in 2013.
context_section_description: In 1975, Logica developed the first electronic typing pool – Unicom – for Unilever. This development allowed the functions of a typing pool to be automated into a single system supporting about 50 workstations.  
  With the support of the UK's National Enterprise Board, in January 1979 the company established a new subsidiary to exploit this technology, Logica VTS.  A range of standalone word processors, the VTS 100, the VTS 2200 ("Whirlwind") and, finally, the VTS 2300 ("Kennet"), were developed and were manufactured at a purpose built factory in Swindon.  These machines were sold internationally by BT and by International Computers Ltd, and were amongst the first word processors to achieve mass sales.  
  The advent of the personal computer, and software such as WordPerfect, led to the decline of this business and its ultimate closure.
  In connection with office automation, Logica VTS also engaged in product work related to local area networking, putting out a product called Polynet in 1981 which was based upon the Cambridge Ring idea rather than Ethernet.  This aspect of business was still going in 1984, with Logica founder Pat Coen as managing director of Logica VTS.
  By the end of 1985, Logica had decided to exit the office automatic business, and Logica VTS was shut down over the course of 1986.
caption: 84, Newman Street, first silver-grey building on the left, housed Logica VTS (here seen in 2017)
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