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Tetra, the UK accounting company acquired by Sage Group has its roots as the creators of the accounting software for a company in Feltham whose name I will recall once I've saved this. The original accounts package was written to run on a Jacquard J100 Videocomputer deployed by that company. From small acorns grow large corporations. Tetra and Sage were neck and neck at one point in the UK accountancy software market.

Tetra was, at the time, Messrs Cooke and Dowling, who pulled off what was then quite a coup by getting the UK Jacquard sales team to sell Tetraplan with the hardware.

This is a notable fact, but I cant find, yet, a source to verify it. Without Jacquard Tetra would not have existed. WIthout Tetra Sage would not be in its current form.

In 1979 Jacquard had the same turnover as Wang Laboratories, and they were head to head as serious rivals. One failed, the other thrived for several amore years

I've a good knowledge of AM Jacquard because I worked for them in 1979, but I cant find easily the material I need to add these facts to the article with citations. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 19:50, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gordian Strapping! That was the name of the company in Feltham! Fiddle Faddle (talk) 20:47, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The content, including the references, seem to have been lifted in its entirety from http://www.gajahmada.web.id/IT/en/book-2326/A-M-Jacquard-Systems_310_gajahmada.html.^[1] Unless this web site took it from Wikipedia?Donna Helene (talk) 08:08, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Donna Helene: The other site scraped it form Wikipedia. The clue is in the words "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" on that page of that site. Fiddle Faddle 09:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My stepfather is the one who owned "Translation Systems" which was the company which wrote the Tomcat software for the Jaquard that was cited in the computer world article. The court reporting translation technology for Tomcat was later used in their next product "InstaText" which used the Jaquard to do the same real-time translation, but then sent the text out as closed captions for live TV (reference on page 146 of https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED316979.pdf) . Somewhere, I have seen a picture of the Jaquard at the National Captioning institute in the background, showing the stenographer typing captions, but i can't find it at this time. I remember my stepfather brought the Jaquard home when the company went out of business, and as a teenager, I was hired to migrate the software from the Jaquard to the PC so that the new company who bought the assets out of bankruptcy could continue in the captioning business. I would love to know if someone still has a jaquard running anywhere. I have no idea what happened to the one we had in the late 80s. If there's some user group or discussion group about them, I'd love to know. 172pilot[at]gmail[dot]com 67.209.8.168 (talk) 14:52, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]