Racal-Decca
From Graces Guide
Racal-Decca, radar manufacturers, of New Malden, Surrey, UK.
- 1980 Racal won a battle with GEC to acquire Decca Ltd[1]. Decca Radar became Racal-Decca.
- Early Racal-Decca radars had dropped the Decca name, which mariners had trusted for years, but outcry from the customers prompted its return.
- At this time the business was run from New Malden in Surrey, UK.
- In the mid-1980s, Decca introduced the BridgeMaster series of radars, which used a rasterized colour display. The BridgeMaster II series followed, with a Motorola 68000 CPU and powerful software options such as vector traces showing the trajectories of other ships as part of the ARPA package.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 15 February 1980