The company said it will start testing the system at customer sites this fall.
The 960E-1 is shipped in component form to the customer site before undergoing final assembly.
The following are specifications required for any business wishing to become a customer site.
Drum, disk and diskette memory was developed but never used at a customer site.
The company's solutions are used at over 60,000 customer sites in more than 50 countries.
Winans typically offered a thirty day trial period at the customer site.
This allows the telephone company to test the line from the central office, without the need to have test equipment at the customer site.
Final assembly of the 797 is completed by Caterpillar field mechanics at or near the customer site.
The latter category broadened somewhat over time to include many other kinds of customer site.
It includes all the operations to prepare a system for assembly and transfer to the customer site.