Too Far Ahead of Its Time: Barclays, Burroughs, and Real-Time Banking
@article{Martin2012TooFA, title={Too Far Ahead of Its Time: Barclays, Burroughs, and Real-Time Banking}, author={Ian Martin}, journal={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, year={2012}, volume={34}, pages={5-19} }
The historiography of computing has until now considered real-time computing in banking as predicated on the possibilities of networked ATMs in the 1970s. This article reveals a different story. It exposes the failed bid by Barclays and Burroughs to make real time a reality for British banking in the 1960s.
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