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Consolidated
Computer Falcon
Key-Edit Business
Information
System. (Source:
Consolidated
Computer Inc. pro-
motional brochure,
York Un iversit y
Computer
Museum.)
overnight,
CCI
became one of the most innovative and inter-
nationally recognized Canadian high tech companies of that
period. “The biggest thing was to get a big sale,” recollected
Kutt, “and I used to camp out down at General Motors in De-
troit and worked at getting them. We got them and … from
there, the Key-Edit really took off and people knew it around
the world.”
By the end of the 1970s,
CCI
had installed over 30,000 key-
stations of its Key-Edit system in twenty-eight countries. Other
companies that soon followed
CCI
with similar key-edit prod-
ucts sold or rented even more systems. The era of punch cards
was over, just like that. The Canadian press called
CCI
Can-
ada's Computer Company and the symbol of Canada's chal-
lenge for a share of the worldwide computer market.
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