I. P. Sharp Associates

I. P. Sharp Associates
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software, time-sharing, consulting, services
PredecessorFerranti, Ferranti-Packard
FoundedDecember 1964; 59 years ago (1964-12) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FoundersIan Sharp et al.
Defunct2005 (2005)
Fate
SuccessorSoliton Incorporated
Headquarters,
Number of locations
59 offices[1] (1983)
Area served
Products
OwnerReuters Group

I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) was a major Canadian computer time-sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 1980s. IPSA is well known for its work on the programming language APL, an early packet switching computer network named IPSANET, and a powerful mainframe computer-based email system named 666 Box, stylized as 666 BOX. It was purchased in 1987 by Reuters Group,[2] which used them until 2005 as a data warehousing center for business data.

  1. ^ "back cover", I. P. Sharp Newsletter, January 1983
  2. ^ "Reuters Set to Acquire I.P. Sharp Associates". Information Today. 4 (6). June 1987.