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But IBM then decided to [[History of IBM#Unbundling of software and services in 1969|unbundle software from its mainframes in 1969]], which helped facilitate the growth of the commercial software industry in the 1970s and beyond.<ref name="s-f-76"/><ref>Campbell-Kelly, ''From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog'', pp. 109ff.</ref>
This accelerated sales of Mark IV severalfold from what Informatics had anticipated.<ref name="ck-116"/>
In 1967, Informatics Computer Systems Division in River Edge, New Jersey developed a store-and-forward messaging system for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which was used for a money transfer system. The system, which ran on the Xerox Sigma 5 computer, was developed into a product named ICS IV/500 communication system. Other customers included the Japanese National Railroad and General Mills. In 1971, Informatics was contracted by Bankers Trust to develop a version of the system that ran on the PDP-11 minicomputer with a Xerox Sigma 5 emulation unit. However, the project was not successful.<ref>History of Informatics, Chapter 8, page 8-11 via [https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2016/12/102679129-05-09-acc.pdf Computer History Museum]</ref>
==Equitable Life Assurance Society relationship==
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