Fifty Years Ago .... from the pages of Computer Weekly

19th September 1974 computing, compiled by TNMOC volunteer archivist, Brian Aldous.

A selection of stories from Computer Weekly from 19th September 1974. The full archive of Computer Weekly can be seen at TNMOC, where there are special rolling displays of front pages from 25 and 40 years ago.

Cash terminals plan by Lloyds: Once again Lloyds Bank has taken the lead in introducing new automated customer facilities to the UK. It is planning to install Cashpoint cash-dispensing terminals into stores and offices, and to have on-line automatic teller terminals outside bank branches. Both devices are manufactured by IBM. Lloyds has now completed its first phase of IBM 2984 Cashpoint terminal installations, and has almost 500 installed inside 300 branches in England and Wales, and in December it embarks on the first installation of Cashpoints at non-bank locations. The first of these will be in the Lewis’s department store in Birmingham, and is set to go live on December 2, after which it will be available to Lloyds Cashpoint card bearers between 9.30 and 5.30 Mondays to Saturdays. Cashpoints will follow in Lewis’s branches in Blackpool, Bristol, Hanley (Staffordshire), Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool and Manchester, and at Selfridges in London, which is part of the Lewis’s Group. The Cashpoints will be supervised by Lewis’s Bank, which is a subsidiary of Lloyds, but they will be installed in the general store area rather than at the bank counter. (CW 411 19/9/1974 p1)