[ih] Fwd: History of "accounts"

[Jacob Goense]

Sure, this old RAND paper tells the story how they went from punching
clocks for
time on the IBM 701 to automated accounting on the IBM 704 at GM around 1957.

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7316.pdf

Items 2 and 6 on pages 9 and 10 for those in a hurry.

/Jacob

> Anyone here want to give Michele further pointers?
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> From: Fred Fuchs <fred at firesabre.com>
> Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] History of "accounts"
> To: Michelle Forelle <mcforelle at gmail.com>, AoIR-L
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
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> On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of
>> the
>> concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts.
>>
>
> "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and
> timesharing. Here are some related links:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html
> http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk
> http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM
>
> Here's a bit more on banking too:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking
> http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/
> swiss-bank-account2.htm
> http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html
>
> Good luck,
>
> Fred
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