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01 January 1991

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House of Commons written answer 24.7.90 Col.132

Mr. Andrew F. Bennett: To ask the Secretary of State for
the Home Department when the new police computer, known as
PNC2, will be operational; and what its capacity will be.

Mr. Peter Lloyd: Present plans are for PNC2 to come into
operational service by the end of the year. The system's
processors will be capable of handling 62 millions of
instructions per second. Its main memory will be capable of
storing 192 million bytes of data; it will also have sufficient
disk capacity to store 80,000 million bytes of data.


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