Technology in the Office 1: The Mechanisation Phase

Susan Curran and Horace Mitchell

Chapter 4 in Office Automation, 1982, pp 56-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The introductory generations of computers — by which, broadly speaking, we mean commercial computers from their introduction in the 1950s to the practical impact of large-scale integration and the minicomputer in the late 1970s — have dominated the development of the postwar office. For more than twenty years, the computer was the centrepiece of the modern, forward-looking concern, the focal point around which plans were made and processes structured. Even companies which came to computing late in this period were infected by the obsession: their long-term plans had been based around the conviction that one day they, too, would have a computer. And that, as far as office automation was concerned, was it: the end of the line.

Keywords: Word Processor; Mainframe Computer; Office Service; Routine Task; Computer Suite (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05975-1_5

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