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.[1][2] Accounting machines were widespread from the early 1900s to 1980s,[3] 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 machines were also called accounting machines).

## List of Vendors/Accounting Machines

* Burroughs Sensimatic[4]
* Burroughs Sensitronic
* Burroughs B80
* Burroughs E103[5]
* Burroughs Computer F2000[4]
* Burroughs L500
* Burroughs E1400 Electronic Computing/Accounting Machine with Magnetic Striped Ledger[6]
* Dalton Adding Machine Company[2]
* Electronics Corporation of America: Magnefile-B[7]
* Electronics Corporation of America: Magnefile-D[7]
* Elliott-Fisher[2]
* Federal Adding Machines[2]
* IBM 632
* IBM 858 Cardatype Accounting Machine [8]
* IBM 6400 Series
* Laboratory for Electronics: The Inventory Machine II (TIM-II)[7]
* Monroe Calculator Company: Model 200
* Monroe Calculator Company: Synchro-Monroe President[4]
* Monroe Calculator Company: Monrobot IX[4]
* NCR Post-Tronic Bookkeeping Machine - Class 29[4]
* NCR Compu-Tronic Accounting Machine[4]
* NCR Accounting Machine - Class 33[4]
* NCR Window Posting Machine - Class 42[4]
* Olivetti: General Bookkeeping Machine (GBM)[7]
* J. B. Rea Company: READIX,[9][10][11] c. 1955[12][7]
* Sundstrand Adding Machines[2]
* Underwood ELECOM 50 "The First Electronic Accounting Machine" [5][7][13][14]
* Underwood ELECOM 125, 125 FP (File Processor),[5][7][15] 1956[16]

## See also

* Unit record equipment

## References

1. ↑ Turck, J.A.V. (1921). Origin of Modern calculating Machines. The Western Society of Engineers. https://archive.org/details/originmoderncal00turcgoog.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Cortada, James W (1993). Before the Computer; IBM, NCR, Burroughs & Remmington Rand & The Industry They Created 1865-1956. Princeton University Press. pp. 158–162. ISBN 0-691-04807-X. https://archive.org/details/beforecomputer00cort_913.
3. ↑ Akera, Atsushi; Nebeker, Frederik (2002). From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514025-7.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Mecham, Alan D., ed (1961). Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.1: Electromechanical Devices. Gille.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mecham, Alan D., ed (1961). Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia vol.2: Electronic Devices. Gille.
6. ↑ Burroughs E1400
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Weik, Martin H. (1955). A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Ballistic Research Laboratories. http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL.html#index.
8. ↑ Fierheller, George A. (2006). Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: The 'Hole' Story of Punched Cards. Stewart. ISBN 1-894183-86-X.
9. ↑ Weik, Martin H. (Mar 1961). "READIX". http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-r.html#READIX.
10. ↑ "10. READIX (J. B. Rea Company)" (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 8 (1): 6–9. Jan 1956. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV08N01Jan56_1601321/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V08N01_Jan56#page/n7/search/readix.
11. ↑ "READIX General Purpose Computer" (in en). ADP Equipment (Bull Machine Company Gamma 60; Philco Transac S-2000 Data Processing System Enclosed) Reports: 209–219 (543–553). 1 November 1957. https://archive.org/stream/adp_equipment_reports_nov57/ADP_Equipment_Reports_Nov57#page/n542/mode/1up/search/Readix+General+Purpose+Computer.
12. ↑
* (in en) Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. Bukupedia. 2004. p. 76. ISBN 9780787675462. https://books.google.com/books?id=wpxWDwAAQBAJ&dq="Readix"&pg=PA76.
Photo of ATIC computer:
* "NASIC's first computer". 1958. https://www.nasic.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001266244/.
Installations:
* "MISCELLANEOUS: 3. J. B. Rea Co., Santa Monica, Calif." (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 9 (2): 18–19. Apr 1957. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_onrDigitaligitalComputerNewsletterV09N02Apr57_1388449/Digital_Computer_Newsletter_V09N02_Apr57#page/n19/search/readix.
13. ↑ "Elecom "50" advertisement | 102646271 | Computer History Museum" (in en). http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646271.
14. ↑
* Brown, Richard Hunt. (1955). "20. PRINCIPAL ELECTRONIC BUSINESS COMPUTERS. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS, PICTURES AND PRICES". Underwood ELECOM 50 Computer. Office automation; integrated and electronic data processing.. New York: Automation Consultants. pp. 148. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085249?urlappend=;seq=170.
* John Diebold & Associates. (7 September 1956). The Use of Three Elecom 50s in a Small Service Bureau. Automatic data processing: Methods reports [and orientation]. Chicago: Cudahy Pub. Co.. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021085397?urlappend=;seq=391.
15. ↑ "COMPUTERS, U. S. A.: 3. ELECOM, Underwood Corporation" (in en). Digital Computer Newsletter 8 (2): 3–4. Apr 1956. http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0694620. [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
16. ↑ "NEWS RELEASES: Election Predictions by Electronic Computer". Computers and Automation 5 (12): 29. Dec 1956. http://www.bitsavers.org/magazines/Computers_And_Automation/195612.pdf. Retrieved 2020-09-05.

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