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<b>Computer System Designed to Give Statewide Service</b><br>Idaho Statesman September 8, 1966</center>
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Idaho First National Bank officials will cut the ribbon Saturday at 1:30 p.m., opening their new $175,000 Data
Center at Twenty - Seventh and Main, president William E. Irvin announced Wednesday.
The new center will be used to provide bookkeeping and data processing service to the entire Idaho First National
banking system, he said. Initially, only the accounting work of the Boise Valley branch offices will be automated
and then Eastern and Northern Idaho branches will be brought into the program.
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Fifty-five people will be employed at the center which features $430,000 in IBM equipment including the System 360.
The 360 computer can process up to 1,600 checks and deposit tickets a minute, 1,100 lines of bank statements or
eight adding machine - type tapes at 1,400 lines per minute, officials said.
The computer stores information on magnetic disk files and has access to this data at up to 312,000 digits per second.
A total of 43.5 million digits of storage are available to the 360 at any one time, officials said.
<br><br>Data from the bank's Eastern And Northern Idaho branch offices Will be accumulated in satellite data centers to be
located in Idaho Falls, Lewiston and Coeur d'Alene.
This information will be transmitted from a computer at the three points across telephone lines to the host
computer in Boise where it will then be processed.


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