Publication Date
Spring 1992
Abstract
While possibly on a larger scale, many of the systems in use today are addressing the same problems that have been around for one-hundred years or more. For example, the precursor of the bar code system for pricing retail merchandise might have been the "secret code" used by merchants around the turn of the century. J. L. Nichols, A. M., The Business Guide; or Safe Methods of Business, (Naperville, Ill., J. L. Nichols & Co., 1899), on page 250, demonstrates the following procedure of "How Merchants Mark Goods."
Recommended Citation
Roberts, Alfred Robert
(1992)
"Systems: Everybody has at least one,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 15:
No.
1, Article 15.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol15/iss1/15