Future of centre unclear
PA Wellington Electricorp’s $5 million Paraparaumu computer centre has been completed — minus its mainframe computer — but its fate was still unclear, said a corporation spokesman yesterday. Electricorp decided in May to abandon its plans to install a mainframe computer at the centre, at a total cost of $7O million, although it had already begun work on converting a big building to accept the new system.
The work was due to finish at the end of the month, and yesterday Electricorp’s assistant general manager (corporate services), Mr Dennis Allan, said it had been commissioned and handed over to the corporation by the contractors.
All equipment associated with the mainframe computer would now be tested, and there were no plans to dispose of the centre immediately. He could not say when a decision would be made on its future, as the mat-
ter was part of negotiations between the Treasury and Electricorp over the value of all the corporation’s assets.
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