Accounting machine
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An accounting machine, or bookkeeping machine or recording-adder, was generally a calculator and printer combination tailored for a specific commercial activity such as billing, payroll, or ledger.[1][2] Accounting machines were widespread from the early 1900s to 1980s,[3] but were rendered obsolete by the availability of low-cost computers such as the IBM PC.
This type of machine is generally distinct from unit record equipment (some unit record machines were also called accounting machines).
List of Vendors/Accounting Machines
- Burroughs Sensimatic[4]
- Burroughs Sensitronic
- Burroughs B80
- Burroughs E103[5]
- Burroughs Computer F2000[4]
- Burroughs L500
- Burroughs E1400 Electronic Computing/Accounting Machine with Magnetic Striped Ledger[6]
- Dalton Adding Machine Company[2]
- Electronics Corporation of America: Magnefile-B[7]
- Electronics Corporation of America: Magnefile-D[7]
- Elliott-Fisher[2]
- Federal Adding Machines[2]
- IBM 632
- IBM 858 Cardatype Accounting Machine [8]
- IBM 6400 Series
- Laboratory for Electronics: The Inventory Machine II (TIM-II)[7]
- Monroe Calculator Company: Model 200
- Monroe Calculator Company: Synchro-Monroe President[4]
- Monroe Calculator Company: Monrobot IX[4]
- NCR Post-Tronic Bookkeeping Machine - Class 29[4]
- NCR Compu-Tronic Accounting Machine[4]
- NCR Accounting Machine - Class 33[4]
- NCR Window Posting Machine - Class 42[4]
- Olivetti: General Bookkeeping Machine (GBM)[7]
- J. B. Rea Company: READIX,[9][10][11] c. 1955[12][7]
- Sundstrand Adding Machines[2]
- Underwood ELECOM 50 "The First Electronic Accounting Machine" [5][7][13][14]
- Underwood ELECOM 125, 125 FP (File Processor),[5][7][15] 1956[16]
See also
References
- ↑ Turck, J.A.V. (1921). Origin of Modern calculating Machines. The Western Society of Engineers. https://archive.org/details/originmoderncal00turcgoog.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Cortada, James W (1993). Before the Computer; IBM, NCR, Burroughs & Remmington Rand & The Industry They Created 1865-1956. Princeton University Press. pp. 158–162. ISBN 0-691-04807-X. https://archive.org/details/beforecomputer00cort_913.
- ↑ Akera, Atsushi; Nebeker, Frederik (2002). From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514025-7.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Mecham, Alan D., ed (1961). Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.1: Electromechanical Devices. Gille.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mecham, Alan D., ed (1961). Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.2: Electronic Devices. Gille.
- ↑ Burroughs E1400
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Weik, Martin H. (1955). A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Ballistic Research Laboratories. http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL.html#index.
- ↑ Fierheller, George A. (2006). Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: The 'Hole' Story of Punched Cards. Stewart. ISBN 1-894183-86-X.
- ↑ Weik, Martin H. (Mar 1961). "READIX". http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-r.html#READIX.
- ↑ "10. READIX (J. B. Rea Company)" (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 8 (1): 6–9. Jan 1956. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV08N01Jan56_1601321/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V08N01_Jan56#page/n7/search/readix.
- ↑ "READIX General Purpose Computer" (in en). ADP Equipment (Bull Machine Company Gamma 60; Philco Transac S-2000 Data Processing System Enclosed) Reports: 209–219 (543–553). 1 November 1957. https://archive.org/stream/adp_equipment_reports_nov57/ADP_Equipment_Reports_Nov57#page/n542/mode/1up/search/Readix+General+Purpose+Computer.
- ↑
- (in en) Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. Bukupedia. 2004. p. 76. ISBN 9780787675462. https://books.google.com/books?id=wpxWDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Readix%22&pg=PA76.
- "MISCELLANEOUS: 3. J. B. Rea Co., Santa Monica, Calif." (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 9 (2): 18–19. Apr 1957. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV09N02Apr57_1388449/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V09N02_Apr57#page/n19/search/readix.
- ↑ "Elecom "50" advertisement | 102646271 | Computer History Museum" (in en). http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646271.
- ↑
- Brown, Richard Hunt. (1955). "20. PRINCIPAL ELECTRONIC BUSINESS COMPUTERS. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS, PICTURES AND PRICES". Underwood ELECOM 50 Computer. Office automation; integrated and electronic data processing.. New York: Automation Consultants. pp. 148. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085249?urlappend=%3Bseq=170.
- John Diebold & Associates. (7 September 1956). The Use of Three Elecom 50s in a Small Service Bureau. Automatic data processing: Methods reports [and orientation]. Chicago: Cudahy Pub. Co.. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085397?urlappend=%3Bseq=391.
- ↑ "COMPUTERS, U. S. A.: 3. ELECOM, Underwood Corporation" (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 8 (2): 3–4. Apr 1956. http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0694620.[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "NEWS RELEASES: Election Predictions by Electronic Computer". Computers and Automation 5 (12): 29. Dec 1956. http://www.bitsavers.org/magazines/Computers_And_Automation/195612.pdf. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
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