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The application of a large-scale electronic computer to the assignment of telephone facilities

Published:06 May 1958Publication History

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The assignment of telephone facilities based on customer requests for service is today performed on a manual basis throughout the telephone industry. The General Telephone Company of California will be the first operating telephone company which will install a large electronic computer, the International Business Machine Corporation's (IBM) 705, to process such service requests. At the present time there are 930,000 telephones installed in the General Telephone Company of California system and the company's growth in the past has been at an accelerated rate. This rapid growth and future potential has embarked the company on a large scale EDPM (Electric Data Processing Machine) program to handle assignment of telephone facilities. The machine is scheduled for delivery in late 1958.

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    IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western): Proceedings of the May 6-8, 1958, western joint computer conference: contrasts in computers
    May 1958
    277 pages
    ISBN:9781450378642
    DOI:10.1145/1457769

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    • Published: 6 May 1958

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