Assistant PRO

Responsible to Head of Public Relations for

- Internal communications,
- External print work,
- Copywriting and design

Northern Telecom Data Systems (now absorbed into the NORTEL group) was one of the early champions of the electronic office environment.

Expanding from their data-processing background in the UK (where they acquired Data 100 as an entry to the European marketplace), the company pioneered the use of central servers supplying client applications to office networked workstations and desktop computers.

On a technical front, these systems moved away from Unix based servers in favour of Xenix for its compatibility with MS-DOS. At the same time the company broached the relatively new field of office ergonomics by adopting, across is range of systems, a "backlit" dark-on-light monitor to relieve the potential for eye-strain.

The resulting system, known as the "VIENNA Office" suite, benefitted from a full range of integrated-office software which included word-processing, spreadsheet and database as well as graphical applications.