Stansaab

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Stansaab AS was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside Stockholm, Sweden. The company was a joint venture between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT), Saab-Scania, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications.{{cite web

|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1972/1972%20-%203354.html

|title=Flightglobal archive 1972

|accessdate=2008-10-29

}} In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of Facit.{{cite web

|url=http://se.services.fujitsu.com/veteran/07q3/070918.htm

|title=A history of the Alfaskop terminal

|author=Göte Wiklund

|language=Swedish

|accessdate=2008-10-29

}}

In 1978, it was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to create Datasaab.{{cite web

|url=http://www.veteranklubbenalfa.se/veteran/foretag.htm

|title=Short history of SRT, Stansaab and Datasaab

|language=Swedish

|accessdate=2008-10-29

}} In 1981, Ericsson, 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.