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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. The machine was selected due to the availablity of the CIOP that handled up to 128 communication lines at speeds of 110 to 9600 baud. 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>
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