Title :
Too Far Ahead of Its Time: Barclays, Burroughs, and Real-Time Banking
Author_Institution :
Leeds Metropolitan Univ., Leeds, UK
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
banking; real-time systems; Barclays; British banking; Burroughs; real-time banking; real-time computing; Banking; Electronic commerce; History; Real-time systems; Britain; banking; history of computing; labor; real-time computing; software crisis;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2012.33
