EMIDEC Business System(ID:8149/)
Business autocode for the EMIDEC computers
Business autocode for the EMIDEC computers
Used for Boots Chemists and Lloyds Bank
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"Epidemic at the chemist's" Automatic Data Processing 2, 11 (Nov. 1960), pp20-22 view details
Anex, Arnold A. review of Article in ACM Computing Reviews, May-June 1961, pp74 view details
Abstract: This short article describes the presently operating merchandise accounting application of the Boots Pure Drug Company, Ltd., of Nottingham, England, on the EMIDEC 1100 Computer. The complete inventory recordkeeping job for the 60,000 line items carried in the 1,300 company-owned retail stores, and serviced from the five warehouses, is accomplished centrally on the EMIDEC 1100. The plans call for gathering of usage statistics for each store so that, eventually, fast moving items may be automatically resupplied to the stores without requisitioning procedures. At present, an interesting ordering procedure eliminates much of the input workload. Each page of the order book has a tear-off strip which the store clerk pencil marks. This strip is mailed to the central computer facility where itis mark sensed and punched for entry into the computer. Also, the article intimates that the Solartron ERA optical reader application, which has been under development for Boots since 1958 and is not yet installed, may be abandoned
BCS Bulletin - Literature and References to Simplified Programming Schemes for Computers, Available or Projected - November 1961 view details
The EMIDEC 1100 data processing system view details
in Electro-Calcul 4(2) (Mar-Apr 1962) view details
Brocksank, A. J. "Order documentation: from theory to practice"
EDP Symp. London. Oct. 1961, 132-166. Pitman Pub. Corp., New York, 1964 view details
in Electro-Calcul 4(2) (Mar-Apr 1962) view details
Horn, review of Brocksank 1964 view details
Abstract: This paper relates to an experience covering 15 months of selecting, preparing for, installing and making operational a medium-size computer. The computer acquired was an EMI Electronics Ltd. EMIDEC computer. The user is a medium size company processing 1-2000 invoices daily to about 10,000 accounts.
He points out the failure of staff reductions to materialize. However, he does not evaluate the effects of additional offsetting workload. Other than that, the author presents the problems and solutions of converting from a conventional card system to a computer system very well.
in ACM Computing Reviews 5(04) July-August 1964 view details
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