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Following a financial crisis in 1980, new management was brought into ICL ( Christopher Laidlaw as chairman, and Robb Wilmot as managing director ).

An early decision of the new management was to drop VME / K.

Thus in July 1981 " VME2900 " was launched: although presented to the customer base as a merger of VME / B and VME / K, it was in reality the VME / B base with a few selected features from VME / K grafted on.

This provided the opportunity to drop some obsolescent features, which remained available to customers who needed them in the form of the " BONVME " option.