• DocumentCode
    1527792
  • Title

    ERMA´s lost battalion

  • Author

    Head, Robert V.

  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    64
  • Lastpage
    72
  • Abstract
    Much of General Electric´s work on the ERMA system for the Bank of America has been documented by scholars and memoirists, but these accounts gloss over or ignore the application programming effort required to make this innovative system operational. This article augments the record with a first-hand account of the rest of the story
  • Keywords
    Nationsbank; bank data processing; history; programming; Bank of America; ERMA system; General Electric; application programming; history; Banking; Contracts; Data processing; Design engineering; Hardware; History; Laboratories; Magnetic heads; Prototypes; Recruitment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/85.948907
  • Filename
    948907