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Accounting machine

{{about|a class of small business-oriented machines in use from the early 1900s through the 1980s||Tabulating machines}}

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.{{cite book |last = Turck |first = J.A.V. | title = Origin of Modern calculating Machines |url = https://archive.org/details/originmoderncal00turcgoog | publisher = The Western Society of Engineers | year = 1921}}{{cite book| last = Cortada | first = James W |title = Before the Computer; IBM, NCR, Burroughs & Remmington Rand & The Industry They Created 1865-1956 | url = https://archive.org/details/beforecomputer00cort_913 | url-access = limited |publisher = Princeton University Press | year =1993 |isbn =0-691-04807-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/beforecomputer00cort_913/page/n192 158]–162}} Accounting machines were widespread from the early 1900s to 1980s,{{cite book |last = Akera |first = Atsushi |author2= Nebeker, Frederik |title = From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing |publisher = Oxford University Press |year = 2002 | isbn = 0-19-514025-7}} 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 tabulating machines were also called "accounting machines").

List of vendors/accounting machines

  • Burroughs Corporation:
  • Burroughs Sensimatic{{cite book | title = Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.1: Electromechanical Devices |year = 1961 |publisher = Gille |editor-last = Mecham |editor-first = Alan D. }}
  • Burroughs Sensitronic
  • Burroughs B80
  • Burroughs E103{{cite book | title = Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.2: Electronic Devices |year = 1961 |publisher = Gille |editor-last = Mecham |editor-first = Alan D. }}
  • Burroughs Computer F2000
  • Burroughs L500
  • Burroughs E1400 Electronic Computing/Accounting Machine with Magnetic Striped Ledger[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646238 Burroughs E1400]
  • Dalton Adding Machine Company
  • Electronics Corporation of America:
  • Magnefile-B{{cite book|url=http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL.html#index|title=A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems|last=Weik|first=Martin H.|publisher=Ballistic Research Laboratories|year=1955}}
  • Magnefile-D
  • Elliott-Fisher
  • Federal Adding Machines
  • IBM:
  • IBM 632
  • IBM 858 Cardatype Accounting Machine {{cite book |last = Fierheller |first = George A. | title = Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: The 'Hole' Story of Punched Cards |publisher = Stewart | year = 2006 |isbn = 1-894183-86-X }}
  • IBM 6400 Series
  • Laboratory for Electronics:
  • The Inventory Machine II (TIM-II)
  • Monroe Calculator Company:
  • Model 200
  • Synchro-Monroe President
  • Monrobot IX
  • NCR Corporation:
  • Post-Tronic Bookkeeping Machine - Class 29
  • Compu-Tronic Accounting Machine
  • Accounting Machine - Class 33
  • Window Posting Machine - Class 42
  • Olivetti:
  • General Bookkeeping Machine (GBM)
  • J. B. Rea Company:
  • READIX,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-r.html#READIX|title=READIX|last=Weik|first=Martin H.|date=Mar 1961|website=ed-thelen.org|series=A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems}}{{cite journal|title=10. READIX (J. B. Rea Company)|journal=Digital Computer Newsletter|date=Jan 1956|volume=8|issue=1|pages=6–9|url=https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV08N01Jan56_1601321/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V08N01_Jan56#page/n7/search/readix|language=en}}{{cite journal |title=READIX General Purpose Computer|journal=ADP Equipment (Bull Machine Company Gamma 60; Philco Transac S-2000 Data Processing System Enclosed) Reports |date=1 November 1957 |pages=209–219 (543–553)|url=https://archive.org/stream/adp_equipment_reports_nov57/ADP_Equipment_Reports_Nov57#page/n542/mode/1up/search/Readix+General+Purpose+Computer |language=en}} c. 1955
  • {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security |date=2004 |publisher=Bukupedia |isbn=9780787675462 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpxWDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Readix%22&pg=PA76 |language=en}}

Photo of ATIC computer:

  • {{cite web |title=NASIC's first computer|date=1958 |url=https://www.nasic.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001266244/ |website=www.nasic.af.mil}}

Installations:

  • {{cite journal|title=MISCELLANEOUS: 3. J. B. Rea Co., Santa Monica, Calif.|journal=Digital Computer Newsletter|date=April 1957|volume=9|issue=2|pages=18–19|url=https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV09N02Apr57_1388449/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V09N02_Apr57#page/n19/search/readix|language=en}}
  • Sundstrand Adding Machines
  • Underwood:
  • ELECOM 50 "The First Electronic Accounting Machine" {{Cite web|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646271|title=Elecom "50" advertisement {{!}} 102646271 {{!}} Computer History Museum|website=www.computerhistory.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-31}}
  • {{cite journal|date=April 1955|title=15. Underwood Corporation|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/onr/Digital_Computer_Newsletter/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V07N02_Apr55.pdf|journal=Digital Computer Newsletter|language=en|volume=7|issue=2|page=10}}
  • {{Cite book|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085249?urlappend=%3Bseq=170|title=Underwood ELECOM 50 Computer|last=Brown|first=Richard Hunt.|date=1955|publisher=Automation Consultants|series=Office automation; integrated and electronic data processing.|location=New York|pages=148|chapter=20. PRINCIPAL ELECTRONIC BUSINESS COMPUTERS. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS, PICTURES AND PRICES|hdl=2027/mdp.39015021085249?urlappend=%3Bseq=170}}
  • {{Cite book|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085397?urlappend=%3Bseq=391|title=The Use of Three Elecom 50s in a Small Service Bureau|last=John Diebold & Associates.|date=7 September 1956|publisher=Cudahy Pub. Co.|series=Automatic data processing: Methods reports [and orientation]|location=Chicago|hdl=2027/mdp.39015021085397?urlappend=%3Bseq=391}}
  • ELECOM 125, 125 FP (File Processor),{{cite journal|title=COMPUTERS, U. S. A.: 3. ELECOM, Underwood Corporation|journal=Digital Computer Newsletter|date=Apr 1956|volume=8|issue=2|pages=3–4|url=http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0694620|language=en}}{{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} 1956{{cite journal|title=NEWS RELEASES: Election Predictions by Electronic Computer|journal=Computers and Automation|date=Dec 1956|volume=5|issue=12|page=29|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/magazines/Computers_And_Automation/195612.pdf|access-date=2020-09-05}}

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