Labels:book | clock | comic book | daily | door | earth | person | plant | shelf | sky | table | tie | windowpane OCR: 348 CHAPTER 6 COMPUTERS IN CONTEXT Banking FOR MOST OF HISTORY banks used low- along with description of the Difference Engine, tech methods to track one of the world's most then under construction in his workshop cherished commodities --wealth. Checking accounts This dream of automated check clearing did not were r widespread use as early as 1550 when however, become reality more than centur Dutch traders began depositing money with cashiers later when Clark Beise senior vice president at for safekeeping. The use of printed checks became Bank of America contracted with Stanford popular in England in the late 18th century so popu- Research Institute (SRI) to develop computer sys- lar that banks difficult to process steadily tem to automate check processing SRI completed increasing stream Q ...
