Ear‐to‐ground

The development of a new microelectronic computer, sufficiently adaptable and low in cost for use in many different types of civil and military automation schemes, has been announced by The Marconi Company. The new machine, called Myriad II, is a simpler version of the ultra‐high speed Myriad I, which was the first commercially available integrated circuit computer, and one of the world's most powerful microminiature machines. Myriad II is an extension to the Marconi range: a basic instrument using modular construction techniques which can be built up by adding extra units into a computer with any or all of the Myriad I facilities.