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ERMA Can Do It! - CHM

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Find out the story behind ERMA, CHM's exciting (and rare) new addition to the collection!

ERMA Can Do It! - CHM Home CHM BLOG From the Collection ERMA Can Do It! By Dag Spicer | June 26, 2023 Share ERMA was the absolute beginning of the mechanization of business. — Thomas Morrin, SRI Director of Engineering On May 17, the Computer History Museum received a very special artifact for its permanent collection. This object, a highly-specialized computer system, rescued Bank of America—indeed the entire American banking industry—from being buried under an avalanche of paper and marked the earliest large-scale use of computers in business. The machine was called ERMA: the Electronic Reco

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