Franklin Books six figure sale to Revco Drugs.WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1996-- Franklin Telecom (OTC/BB:FTEL FTEL Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd. ) of Westlake Village Friday announced that it has received an order for the Franklin Asynchronous Communications Co-Processor System (ACP (Associate Computing Professional) The award for successful completion of an examination in computers offered by the ICCP. It is geared to newcomers in the computing field. For more information, visit www.iccp.org. ACP - Algebra of Communicating Processes ) from Revco Drugs. Revco, the nation's second largest drugstore retailer, has headquarters in Twinsburg, Ohio Twinsburg is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, a suburban city about halfway between Akron and Cleveland. The population was 17,006 at the 2000 census. Geography Twinsburg is located at (41.324122, -81. . It operates 2,100 stores in 14 Midwestern, Eastern and Southeastern states. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Franklin's sales manager, Alan London, "Revco is one of Franklin's long-term customers. We've been doing business with them for 10 years and it's always a pleasure. They keep growing ... and we've been fortunate to play a part in their expansion." Frank Peters, Franklin's president and chief executive officer added: "I have a soft spot for Revco and the ACP product line. The ACP allows the customer to install the product into an in-store PC; the local store can then establish a 64kb X.25 permanent virtual circuit See PVC. (networking) Permanent Virtual Circuit - (PVC, or in ATM terminology, "Permanent Virtual Connection") A virtual circuit that is permanently established, saving the time associated with circuit establishment and tear-down. to corporate HQ while operating 7 asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. devices (like printers and terminals) at the local site. "Since the ACP is a full computer with on board memory and a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , you get true Multi Processing so it gets off the computer bus and returns control to the operator just as though it is not there. The ACP could fit into any PC turning it into a high-speed communications controller while not interfering with the PC." Peters continued: "These days, we get caught up with our newest, more glamorous high-tech products (which, by the way, are terrific!) and meanwhile, the ACP, which has been in service for eight years, just keeps going and going. There's still nothing to top it. We have several customers, like Revco, who know they've got a good thing and keep coming back for more!" Franklin intends to launch a marketing campaign this winter to feature additional applications for the ACP. It has tremendous possibilities for any business needing real-time communications between a corporate headquarters and remote site, such as retailers, insurance companies, health care agencies, etc. For the latest up-to-the-minute information about Franklin Telecom and FNet, visit the company's Web site at www.ftel.com. CONTACT: Franklin Telecom, Westlake Village Helen West, 805/373-8688 |
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