with the experience gained during orion ii the engineers returned to toronto convinced that reservec's design sold into the orion's marketplace would be a commercial success. once again approaching the federal reserve bank, they proposed to build a new machine to replace the earlier post-office-derived system. the bank accepted the proposal, and work on what would become the ferranti-packard 6000 started in late 1961. this joint venture with pitney-bowes was one of five micr trials at various frb districts. the system was delivered in early 1963 and removed a year later.