The basic business model predates electronic computing and extends at least as far back as the 1920s when IBM started operating service bureaus with tabulating equipment. See here for a 1937 photographic example:
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/asia/Vietnam_3404ph01.html I assume Remington Rand eventually did something similar. The proliferation of economical, fairly reliable Internet service has made this basic concept more easily accessible and appealing. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
