FROM DATAR TO THE FP-6000 - TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE IN A CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL CONTEXT

Ferranti Canada's efforts to launch an indigenous computer industry - with itself at the center - and the eventual of this dream constitute a more complex story than is told in the usual versions, which speak of great ideas lost to an unresponsive society. This article gives an account of Ferranti Canada's involvement in the beginnings of a Canadian electronics industry in the twenty or so years following the Second World War, against the background of world events and the Canadian political military, and industrial scene.