Stansaab AS was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside

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. The company was a

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between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT),

Saab-Scania Saab-Scania AB was a Swedish vehicle manufacturer that was formed from the 1969 merger of Saab AB and Scania-Vabis. The company was split in 1995. History Truck and bus manufacturer Scania AB of Södertälje merged with car and aeroplane manu ...

, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for

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applied to commercial and aviation applications. In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of

Facit Facit (''Facit AB'') was an industrial corporation and manufacturer of office products including furniture. It was based in Åtvidaberg, Sweden, and founded in 1922 as ''AB Åtvidabergs Industrier''. Facit AB, a manufacturer of mechanical calcu ...

. In 1978, it was merged with the Data Saab division of

Saab Saab or SAAB may refer to: Brands and enterprises * Saab AB, a Swedish aircraft, aerospace and defence company, still known as SAAB, and together with subsidiaries as Saab Group ** Datasaab, a former computer company, started as spin off from Saab ...

to create

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. In 1981,

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, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS).{{cite web , url=http://se.services.fujitsu.com/veteran/04q4/041103.pdf , title=Ericsson, the Technology Integrator for the Office of the Future: EIS AB and Dreams on Computer-Telecom Convergence in the 1980s , author=Enrico Baraldi , publisher=Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University , accessdate=2008-10-29 One of the most successful products of the company was the Alfaskop range of data terminals.

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Defunct companies of Sweden Defunct computer hardware companies Saab