Plessey - History

Founded in 1917 in Marylebone, central London but moving to Cottenham Road in Ilford early in 1919 (and then to Vicarage Lane where it remained) The Plessey Company became one of the largest manufacturers in this field as the radio and television industries grew. Plessey were partners in the development of the Atlas Computer in 1962 and in the development of Digital telephone systems - System X - during the late 1970s.

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Plessey, Plessey - History, Plessey - GEC takeover bid, Plessey - GEC Siemens takeover, Plessey - GEC acquisitions, Plessey - Siemens acquisitions, Plessey - Subsequent history, Plessey - Plessey barcodes, Plessey - External link

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Plessey is also a name for a barcode symbology developed by them, which is still used in some libraries and for shelf tags in retail stores, in part as a solution to their internal requirement for stock control. Its chief advantages are the relative ease of printing using the dot-matrix printers popular at the time of the code's introduction, and its somewhat higher density than the more common 2 of 5 and 3 of 9 codes. Plessey barcodes use two bar widths. Whitespace between bars is not significant. The start element is a wide b ...

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Plessey, Plessey - History, Plessey - GEC takeover bid, Plessey - GEC Siemens takeover, Plessey - GEC acquisitions, Plessey - Siemens acquisitions, Plessey - Subsequent history, Plessey - Plessey barcodes, Plessey - External link

Read more here: » Plessey: Encyclopedia II - Plessey - Plessey barcodes