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2023 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Use of Computers in the Spanish Gas Industry: The First Comer: Catalana de Gas y Electricidad (1962–1969)
verfasst von : Pere-A. Fàbregas
Erschienen in: The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
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Abstract
The first applications of information technology (IT), with modern concepts, in Spanish companies began in the early 1960s. The utilities sector, mainly gas and electricity companies, was one of the most important introducers of these advanced technologies and new methodologies in its business practice. The first equipment installed in a gas company in the country was the IBM 1401 of the Catalana de Gas y Electricidad, in Barcelona, in 1962, which is the case studied.
This chapter presents the motivations and surrounding circumstances that favored this advance. It analyzes the tasks of these machines, and how the company searched, selected, and trained the professionals who had to make them work. Describing what business problems new computing and data organization power could help simplify or solve.
A whole microcosm and new environments at that time, but fundamental, to understand the future evolution of information technologies applied to the business world.