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AFTN and AMHS message switching products - Digital Resources, Inc.
Description
Digital Resources, Inc. (DRI) was formed in 1981 by a former product development manager for the North American Philips Communications System Division, a wholly owned subsidiary of Philips NV. DRI is located in the northernmost area of New Jersey, 35 miles northwest of New York city. One DRI location is used for fabrication, system integration, factory acceptance testing, training, and hardware and network technical support. Another location is used for software development and administrative offices.
DRI’s founder participated in the hardware and system design of the Philips store-and-forward message switching systems in both the Netherlands and the U.S.A. These communication systems were installed throughout the world in AFTN, Telex, weather message distribution systems, international CCITT F.31 message switching systems, and industrial/commercial microprocessor-based message preparation and delivery systems.
DRI’s initial product development efforts supported the Philips installed customer base by providing state-of-the-art extensions, such as main-memory and advanced peripheral subsystems that greatly increased the capacity, reliability, maintainability, and system life cycle of the original Philips systems. The first DRI product was installed in the FAA Weather Message Switching System (WMSC) in Kansas City. This product replaced the original CPU memory with the first error-checking-and-correction (ECC) memory, combined with what is now termed ‘flash-memory’, that was used in any store-and-forward message system then in operation. This same product was installed in message switching systems throughout the world.
