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Too Far Ahead of Its Time: Barclays, Burroughs, and Real-Time Banking

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1 Author(s)
Martin, I. ; Leeds Metropolitan Univ., Leeds, UK

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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Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE  (Volume:34 ,  Issue: 2 )

Date of Publication: Feb. 2012

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