1960 General Electric Computer - GE 210 - 1961 MICR - Banking Finance Data Processing

From US Government Archives, a 1961 film spotlights the GE 210 Computer. The GE 210 Computer announced in 1960 was based on the earlier ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine Accounting) system developed in the early 1950’s. ERMA systems used MICR (magnetic ink Character recognition) which revolutionized bank check processing. At least 44 systems were produced from 1960 to 1964. Film created for the former Merchandise National Bank of Chicago in 1961. For more information on the history of GE computers and ERMA systems, the following resources are recommended: General Electric Computer Department from the bottom up, 1961 through 1965, by Ed Thelen http://www.ed-thelen.org/EarlyGE-Comp... Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation http://www.smecc.org/ Click to visit our other Computer History videos:    / @computerhistoryarchivesproject