ICT was in the midst of re-designing its own series of low-end machines and had been considering licensing an RCA IBM-compatible design. However, the FP-6000 offered them a more attractive system that could be scaled with the addition of smaller and larger machines to produce an entire line. ICT was finally interested, as one Ferranti board member put it, ""without the FP-6000 we would not have gotten the deal we wanted from ICT. The FP-6000 was the golden brick in the sale of our operations."" The deal was announced in June 1963, to the surprise of the Canadian division.