• DocumentCode
    1521225
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Martin, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Leeds Metropolitan Univ., Leeds, UK
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    19
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2012.33
  • Filename
    6203522
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1521225