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one key in any decade from being latched. The latching allowed the operator to quickly check that the correct number had been entered before pulling the operating lever. The numbers entered and the final total were printed on a roll of paper at the rear, so there was no danger of the operator writing down the wrong answer and there was a copy of the calculation which could be checked later if necessary.
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392:, and sold well in the banking sector, where they were often connected to non-Burroughs mainframes. In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a medium systems such as B200/B300 and larger systems such as a B2700 or
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Minnesota, Minneapolis. Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Materials include corporate records, photographs, films and video tapes, scrapbooks, papers of employees and
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Burroughs released the Class 3 and Class 4 adding machines which were built after the purchase of the Pike Adding
Machine Company around 1910. These machines provided a significant improvement over the older models because operators could view the printing on the paper tape. The machines were called
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which governed the speed at which the operating lever could be pulled so allowing the mechanism to operate consistently correctly. The machine also had a full-keyboard with a separate column of keys 1 to 9 for each decade where the keys latch when pressed, with interlocking which prevented more than
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Burroughs developed a half-size version of the D825 called the D82, cutting the word size from 48 to 24 bits and simplifying the computer's instruction set. The D82 could have up to 32,768 words of core memory and continued the use of separate instruction and I/O processors. Burroughs sold a D82 to
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In 1925 Burroughs released a much smaller machine called "the portable". Two models were released, the Class 8 (without subtraction) and the Class 9 with subtraction capability. Later models continued to be released with the P600 and top-of-the-range P612 offered some limited programmability based
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BLUE BELL, Pa., February 19, 2013 - Unisys
Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has been awarded the Enterprise Computing Center Support (ECCS) contract from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Under this single-award indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, the IRS can
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machines started with the B5000 in 1961. The B5500 came a few years later when large rotating disks replaced drums as the main external memory media. These B5000 Series systems used the world's first virtual memory multi-programming operating system. They were followed by the B6500/B6700 in the
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Burroughs. CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100,000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the
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upon the position of the movable carriage. The range was further extended by the inclusion of the Series J ten-key machines which provided a single finger calculation facility, and the Class 5 (later called Series C) key-driven calculators in both manual and electrical assisted
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which was part of the ledger card. This balance was read into the accumulator when the card was inserted into the carriage. The
Sensitronic was followed by the E1000, E2000, E3000, E4000, E6000 and the E8000, which were computer systems supporting card reader/punches and a
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software for its reservations system. TWA sued
Burroughs for non-fulfillment of the contract, but Burroughs counter-sued, stating that the basic system did work and that the problems were in TWA's applications software. The two companies reached an out-of-court
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machine which was completed in 1965. A D84 processor/memory unit with 4096 words of memory occupied just 1.4 cubic feet (40 litres). This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force
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consider these series of computers to be technologically groundbreaking. Stack oriented processors, with 48 bit word length where each word was defined as data or program contributed significantly to a secure operating environment, long before
1552:, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.
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Minnesota. Sellenraad describes his long association with Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the impact of World Wars I & II on the sales and service of calculators, and adding and bookkeeping machines in
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The Class 2 machine, called the "duplex" and built in the same basic style, provided a means of keeping two separate totals. The Class 6 machine was built for bookkeeping work and provided the ability for direct subtraction.
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provided an electronic display calculator. Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities. A revolutionary adding machine was the
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In 1964 Burroughs had completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations. Burroughs designated the B8300 after
557:(Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, a minor extension of ALGOL) and DCALGOL (Data Communications ALGOL) and later in NEWP (with further extensions to ALGOL) almost a decade before
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computer in the early 1960s. The ILLIAC had up to 128 parallel processors while the B6700 & B7700 only accommodated a total of 7 CPUs and/or I/O units (the 8th unit was the memory tester).
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and was working on the
Datatron 220. The first major computer product that came from this marriage was the B205 tube computer. In 1968 the L and TC series range was produced (e.g. the
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At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor. Like IBM, Burroughs tried to supply a complete line of products for its customers, including
Burroughs-designed printers,
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The adding machine range began with the basic, hand-cranked Class 1 which was only capable of adding. The design included some revolutionary features, foremost of which was the
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later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid-1970s, and the A series in the 1980s. The underlying architecture of these machines is similar and continues today as the
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Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 (the "D" prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use), in its Great Valley
Laboratory in
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award Unisys task orders to provide support and maintenance services for the IRS computing environment, including Unisys ClearPath Dorado servers.
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In industries like banking, where continuous operations was mandatory, Burroughs Large Systems penetrated nearly every large bank, including the
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Anderson, J. P.; Hoffman, S. A.; Shifman, J.; Williams, R. J. (1962). "D825 - a multiple-computer system for command & control".
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during the ledger posting operations and worked with a mechanical adder named a Crossfooter. The Sensimatic developed into the
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products, initially for banking institutions. This move began with Burroughs' purchase in June 1956, of the
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was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the
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The Burroughs B5900 and E-Mode: A bridge to 21st Century Computing
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Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
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with declarations, statements and procedures called WFL (
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in the world, also producing related equipment including
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family of 16-bit chips as the processor. These ran the
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or "small systems" computers that were designed to be
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1108:"IBM and the Seven Dwarfs — Dwarf One: Burroughs"
1556:Oral history interview with Isaac Levin Auerbach
767:to handle reservations for trips originating in
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1953:Defunct computer companies of the United States
1973:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1986
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1571:Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System
1386:""Starring the Computer: Burroughs B205""
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58:American Arithmometer Company (1886–1904)
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1536:Burroughs Corporation Photo Database
376:—Terminal Computer 500) which had a
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1958:Defunct computer hardware companies
1948:Defunct companies based in Missouri
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673:In 1982, Burroughs began producing
1963:Defunct computer systems companies
1833:New Executive Programming Language
1305:, University of Minnesota archives
625:efficiently. This included a BCD (
405:magnetic ink character recognition
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1509:"B1700 Design and Implementation"
1359:Burroughs Payment Systems website
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531:ClearPath MCP line of computers:
415:A force in the computing industry
500:high level programming languages
328:which could store balances on a
243:Desktop model in use around 1910
18:Burroughs Adding Machine Company
1978:Mechanical calculator companies
1913:1886 establishments in Missouri
992:Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
941:Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
782:General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
605:. Burroughs built the backbone
384:. These were popular as branch
1711:System Development Corporation
1044:Vintage Calculators Web Museum
478:, computer printing paper and
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1522:Burroughs Corporation Records
1437:Gray, George (October 1999).
1269:Gray, George (October 1999).
955:References in popular culture
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178:American Arithmometer Company
1933:Companies based in St. Louis
1093:Burroughs Annual Report 1968
720:Burroughs collaborated with
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1650:Ian Joyner's Burroughs page
1416:Gray, George (March 1999).
1247:"Burroughs Display Systems"
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1620:"Early Burroughs Machines"
1165:"China Deal For Burroughs"
1019:"Burroughs Adding Machine"
828:Burroughs Payment Systems
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1525:Charles Babbage Institute
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1422:Unisys History Newsletter
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1083:"Burroughs 205 HomePage"
496:language-directed design
433:Control Data Corporation
261:William Seward Burroughs
182:William Seward Burroughs
30:Not to be confused with
1856:List of UNIVAC products
1772:UNIVAC 1100/2200 series
1762:Burroughs Large Systems
1718:Convergent Technologies
1501:, Academic Press (1973)
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640:Burroughs produced the
617:Burroughs produced the
524:Burroughs Large Systems
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354:ElectroData Corporation
1624:University of Virginia
1479:Mayer, Alastair J.W.,
1468:34(2), pp. 5–19.
1460:Martin, Ian L. (2012)
1453:on September 26, 2017.
1175:story, January 3, 1985
1129:"Burroughs B80 Family"
1064:Morgan, Bryan (1953).
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915:Marlin Equity Partners
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545:Master Control Program
279:Evolving product lines
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627:Binary Coded Decimal
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401:Federal Reserve Bank
358:Pasadena, California
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1449:(5). Archived from
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1428:(1). Archived from
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1281:(5). Archived from
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664:accounting machines
575:computer scientists
563:structured language
360:, a spinoff of the
344:Move into computers
232:An early Burroughs
202:mainframe computers
164:St. Louis, Missouri
84:Mainframe computers
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1530:Unisys Corporation
1507:Wilner, Wayne T.,
1372:""B205 On Screen""
1345:2010-04-14 at the
1301:2014-11-29 at the
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1169:The New York Times
949:Plymouth, Michigan
904:Payment processors
893:Plymouth, Michigan
855:Plymouth, Michigan
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797:Merger with Sperry
699:local area network
675:personal computers
567:Work Flow Language
480:typewriter ribbons
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