Too Far Ahead of Its Time: Barclays, Burroughs, and Real-Time Banking
I. Martin · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2012
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.