© 1963 by British Computer Society
Accounting for the soldier's pay
RAPC Electronic Accounting Development Unit, Worthy Down, Winchester, Hants., UK
The feasibility study undertaken by the War Office started in 1956. The computer system (I.B.M. 705II) was ordered in 1958, and operations commenced in purpose-built accommodation in October 1960. This paper, read to The British Computer Society in London in May 1962, gives some details of the Royal Army Pay Corps system and some of the problems that have been met in establishing it.