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Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information. Data processing is a form of information processing, which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer.
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Electronic data processing (EDP) or business information processing can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock updates applied to an inventory, banking transactions applied to account and customer master files, booking and ticketing transactions to an airline's reservation system, billing for utility services. The modifier "electronic" or "automatic" was used with "data processing" (DP), especially c. 1960, to distinguish human clerical data processing from that done by computer.
A punched card from the mid-twentieth century.
A punched card from the mid-twentieth century.
1967 letter by the Midland Bank to a customer, on the introduction of electronic data processing
1967 letter by the Midland Bank to a customer, on the introduction of electronic data processing
Electronic data processing in the Volkswagen factory Wolfsburg, 1973
Electronic data processing in the Volkswagen factory Wolfsburg, 1973