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International Business Machines (IBM)

IBM supplied New Zealand Treasury with an IBM 650 data-processing system. Installed in 1960, it used magnetic tape and processed the central public-service payroll, returning printed vouchers and punched-card cheques.

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The first government machinesSurvey calculations

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1960 to 1961 · Stored-program government computing becomes operational

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Manufactured by IBMIBM 650
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The Treasury installation is described as an IBM 650 data-processing system.
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1. A. C. Shailes, “The impact of computers on the public sector” (1980), ITPNZ history
2. Brian E. Carpenter, “The First Computer in New Zealand”
Installed the IBM 650 for public-service computingNew Zealand Treasury
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A. C. Shailes’s account records Treasury’s IBM 650 installation in 1960 and its payroll role.
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1. A. C. Shailes, “The impact of computers on the public sector” (1980), ITPNZ history