Centring the Computer in the Business of Banking. Barclays Bank and technological change, 1954-1974
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- Author(s) Martin, Ian
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 2010
- Publisher University of Manchester
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Information: creation, collection & processing
- Name Oral history
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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- Name Manchester University John Rylands Library
- City Manchester
- County Greater Manchester
- Country England
- Postcode M3 3EH
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Deals with the introduction of large scale computer technology using Barclays as a case study in the period from its first steps to computerisation to the link up of its last branch to centralised computing in 1974. Focuses on the centralisation issues involved in the move of customer accounting from branches to centres and its impact including both qualitative and quantitative aspects. Draws, inter alia, on oral testimonies