Accounting machine
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. Accounting machines were widespread from the early 1900s to 1980s, 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").
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• Burroughs Corporation: • Burroughs Sensimatic • Burroughs Sensitronic • Burroughs B80 • Burroughs E103 • Burroughs Computer F2000 • Burroughs L500 • Burroughs E1400 Electronic Computing/Accounting Machine with Magnetic Striped Ledger • Dalton Adding Machine Company • Electronics Corporation of America: • Magnefile-B • Magnefile-D • Elliott-Fisher • Federal Adding Machines • IBM: • IBM 632 • IBM 858 Cardatype Accounting Machine • 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, c. 1955 • Sundstrand Adding Machines • Underwood: • ELECOM 50 "The First Electronic Accounting Machine" • ELECOM 125, 125 FP (File Processor), 1956
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- 11.READIX General Purpose Computer. ADP Equipment (Bull Machine Company Gamma 60; Philco Transac S-2000 Data Processing System Enclosed) Reports. 209–219 (543–553). 1 November 1957.
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- 15.COMPUTERS, U. S. A.: 3. ELECOM, Underwood Corporation. Digital Computer Newsletter. 8. 2. 3–4. June 2022.
- 16.NEWS RELEASES: Election Predictions by Electronic Computer. Computers and Automation. 5. 12. 29. Dec 1956.
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