Service Bureau Corporation
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Time-sharing computers |
Founded | 1932; 92 years ago (1932) |
Defunct | 1973 (1973) |
Fate | Acquired by Control Data Corporation |
Parent | International Business Machines |
The Service Bureau Corporation (SBC) had its origins in 1932 as the Service Bureau Division within IBM and was spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1957 to operate IBM's burgeoning service bureau businesses.[1]
IBM had operated service bureaus in major cities beginning in the 1920s allowing users to rent time on tabulating equipment, and later computing equipment, to solve problems which couldn't justify a full-time equipment lease. In 1956, as a result of a consent decree with the United States Department of Justice, IBM spun off its service bureaus to force them to operate at "arms length" from the parent company.[1]
In 1968 IBM transferred its Information marketing Division to SBC. This included the CALL/360 time-sharing service, QUIKTRAN, BASIC, and DATATEXT (a text processing system similar to ATS).[2]
In 1973, to settle a multi-year lawsuit charging anti-competitive behavior in IBM's pre-announcement of a nonexistent high-end System/360 Model 92, IBM sold SBC for $16 million to Control Data Corporation, which had a growing service bureau business of its own.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Yost, Jeffrey R. (2017). Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03672-6. OCLC 978286108.
- ^ IBM Corporation. "IBM Archived: DPD Chronology". Retrieved Sep 11, 2013.
External links
- Photo – Rome (IT) service bureau in 1962
- Photo – Hanoi (VN) service bureau 1937
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