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The Computer Journal 1960 3(1):2-9; doi:10.1093/comjnl/3.1.2
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The First Year's Experience with a Large Computer in a Life Assurance Office

R. L. Sutton

Confederation Life Association, London, UK

This paper is the text of a talk given to The British Computer Society on Tuesday, 5 January 1960. The author discusses some of the preparatory steps taken by Confederation Life Association before the purchase of a large-scale electronic data-processing machine—an IBM 705. He then deals with the successful, simultaneous, conversion of all ordinary policy operations to the electronic computer and the first year's experience of the new system, concluding with some remarks on problems resulting from the handling of world-wide business on a central computer installation in Toronto, with particular reference to the Association's British operations.


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