According to ROCC Computers Ltd, the Unix market in the Czech and Slovak republics is starting to move because customers there have more cash to spend on new systems than other central European countries. The computer products and services company has won contracts worth approximately $100,000 to supply Motorola Inc Unix 8000 series computers to four companies in the Czech republic. ROCC is a value-added reseller for Motorola. The four companies concerned are: Prague-based electronic equipment manufacturer CKD Elektrotechnika, which will install a Motorola 8640 dual processor system to look after its personnel records and accounting needs; Konsignia, a Prague-based distributor of computer products to the Czech and Slovak republics, which is acquiring a Motorola 8640 for distribution and sales accounting; HUT POLDI, a steelworks based in Kladno, near Prague, which is buying a Motorola 8220 for capturing and processing data from its personnel records and stock control systems; and finally, the Horovice-based forestry commission, which has bought a Motorola 8220 to act as a development and back-up system to its existing 8420. It uses the 8420 to run sales and invoicing, general accounts and personnel systems. ROCC has also had operations in Russia, Hungary, and Poland since 1974, but customers here are said to be more interested in the group’s own keyboard and imaging data capture product. The Crawley, West Sussex company has its roots in the Redifon group – the wholly-owned capital goods subsidiaries of the one-time Rediffusion Plc. In the early 1950s, Redifon designed and build analogue, hybrid and digital real-time computer systems for use in flight simulation. This technology led to the development of real-time information processing workstations and multi-user key-to-disk data capture systems for minicomputers by the early 1970s. In 1976, Redifon Computers Ltd was set up with the sole aim of marketing and selling the data capture product. When the Rediffusion group was broken up and sold in 1984, Rediffusion Computers Ltd as it was then called, went in a management buy-out, backed by Charterhouse Development Capital Fund Ltd. Charterhouse still holds a 6% stake in the company. The holding company was renamed ROCC Corp, while the main operating company became ROCC Computers Ltd. ROCC Computers demerged from ROCC Corp in 1992.