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The
Service Bureau Corporation (SBC)
had its origins in 1932 as the Service Bureau Division within
IBM
and was spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1957 to operate IBM's burgeoning service bureau businesses.
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IBM had operated
service bureaus
in major cities beginning in the 1920s allowing users to rent time on
tabulating equipment
, and later computing equipment, to solve problems which couldn't justify a full-time equipment lease. In 1956, as a result of a
consent decree
with the
United States Department of Justice
, IBM spun off its service bureaus to force them to operate at "arms length" from the parent company.
[1]
In 1968 IBM transferred its Information marketing Division to SBC. This included the CALL/360
time-sharing
service,
QUIKTRAN
,
BASIC
, and DATATEXT (a text processing system similar to
ATS
).
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In 1973, to settle a multi-year lawsuit charging anti-competitive behavior in IBM's pre-announcement of a nonexistent high-end System/360 Model 92, IBM sold SBC for $16 million to
Control Data Corporation
, which had a growing service bureau business of its own.
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