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54632 How to Prepare a Statement of Requirements for a Computer Application

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Instructions for an office manager in 'How to Prepare a Statement of Requirements for a Computer Application', likely written by David Caminer.

Research comments: Part C of the document lists the clerical tasks (and therefore the types of data) a computer might handle. These are:

customer records including orders,
supplier records including invoices, stock and requisitions,
employee records including attendance, rates of pay etc,
production programmes including materials, labour, machine time for manufacture and assembly,
stock levels, locations, prices, speed of turnover. (LM)

Date : Undated (c1959)

Physical Description : 1 item (4 pages), paper; typescript

Provenance :
From David Caminer's papers.

Archive References : CMLEO/DC/LP/54632 , DTC/1/11 , DCMLEO20200319059-062

Related Topics:

David Caminer

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH54632. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

Article: 54632 How to Prepare a Statement of Requirements for a Computer Application

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