RAPC Virtual Museum
AUTOMATED SYSTEMS/COMPUTING
Background
Always prepared to accept new developments, the RAPC readily adopted mechanical calculators, accounting systems and printers, together with the electronic version as they appeared!
When the Worthy Down site was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1960 it became home to the RAPC Electronic Accounting Development Unit (EADU) who housed their computer centre with its IBM 705 system in the purpose built three-storey Slater House. The first UK Government installed IBM mainframe computer it was used to process the 1961 UK census electronically for the first time.
