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
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.
This type of machine is generally distinct from
unit record equipment
Starting at the end of the nineteenth century, well before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using Electromechanics, electromechanical machines collectively referred to as unit record equipment, electric accounting ...
(some unit record
tabulating machines were also called "accounting machines").
List of vendors/accounting machines
*
Burroughs Corporation
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs I, William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled many ...
:
**
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][
* Elliott-Fisher][
* Federal Adding Machines][
* ]IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
:
** IBM 632
** IBM 858 Cardatype Accounting Machine [
* Monroe Calculator Company:
** Model 200
** Synchro-Monroe President][
** Monrobot IX][
* ]NCR Corporation
NCR Voyix Corporation, previously known as NCR Corporation and National Cash Register, is a global software, consulting and technology company providing several professional services and Electronics, electronic products. It manufactured Self-c ...
:
** 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]
See also
*Unit record equipment
Starting at the end of the nineteenth century, well before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using Electromechanics, electromechanical machines collectively referred to as unit record equipment, electric accounting ...
References
External links
Programmable calculators
Early computers
Mechanical calculators
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