NEW ZEALANDGIS History
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Department of Education (New Zealand)

AgencyDepartment of Education Education Department

A later history of New Zealand computing argues that an ICT 1201 was installed for the Department of Education before Treasury’s IBM 650 and may have processed teachers’ pay by August or September 1960. This chronology is plausible but less firmly documented than Treasury’s machine.

Sources · 1
  1. Brian E. Carpenter, “The First Computer in New Zealand”

By 1969 the Education Department’s computer was also acting as a bureau for other departments. In 1970 its computer operations were brought into the Government Computer Centre.

Sources · 1
  1. A. C. Shailes, “The impact of computers on the public sector” (1980), ITPNZ history
Sources and further reading · 2
  1. Brian E. Carpenter, “The First Computer in New Zealand”
  2. A. C. Shailes, “The impact of computers on the public sector” (1980), ITPNZ history

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