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.
Published in:
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
(Volume:34
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: Feb. 2012