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    invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs). In 1904, six years after Burroughs' death, the company moved...
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    by Burroughs Corporation CEO and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Michael Blumenthal, Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation. The...
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    grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' mother was Laura...
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  • ElectroData Corporation and rebranded its design as the B205. Burroughs' first internally developed machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought...
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    William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York. Burroughs was the son of a mechanic...
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  • Georgia Burroughs Corporation, a maker of adding machines and computers Burroughs (surname), people and fictional characters The Burroughs, a district...
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  • run on a Burroughs Corporation B6700 mainframe computer. Subsequently, it was rewritten in SMALL, and ported to a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10...
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  • which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell...
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  • The Burroughs B2500 through Burroughs B4900 was a series of mainframe computers developed and manufactured by Burroughs Corporation in Pasadena, California...
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    Datatron (redirect from Burroughs 220)
    developed by ElectroData Corporation and first shipped in 1954. The Datatron was later marketed by Burroughs Corporation after Burroughs acquired ElectroData...
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  • The Burroughs B1000 Series was a series of mainframe computers, built by the Burroughs Corporation, and originally introduced in the 1970s with continued...
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  • year that Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael...
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  • System v10 Non-Unix Operating Systems: BESYS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Inferno Burroughs MCP GEOS AmigaOS AROS Research Operating System SCOPE (Supervisory Control...
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    paged virtual memory. Dijkstra joined Burroughs Corporation as its sole research fellow in August 1973. The Burroughs years saw him at his most prolific...
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    Donald Knuth (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford...
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    tools and supervised production of the bombsight at Burroughs Corporation. "Burroughs Corporation Records. World War II Era Records, 1931–1946". Charles...
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  • E. St. Elmo Lewis (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    a 'credit man' (manager). He then became the advertising manager for Burroughs Adding Machine Company (manufacturer of the first widely used calculator)...
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    Craig Ferguson (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation. Ferguson has two sisters (one older and one younger) and one older...
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    interest in the language by large computer vendors (other than Burroughs Corporation).[citation needed] ALGOL 60 did however become the standard for...
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    ElectroData Division of Burroughs Corporation. The Datatron was renamed the Burroughs 205. Sawyer, T.J. "Tom's Datatron 205 Burroughs 205 HomePage". Archived...
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    Seward Burroughs received a patent for his adding machine on August 25, 1888. He was a founder of American Arithmometer Company, which became Burroughs Corporation...
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    Unisys (redirect from Unisys Corporation)
    was formed in 1986 through the merger of mainframe corporations Sperry and Burroughs, with Burroughs buying Sperry for $4.8 billion. The name was chosen...
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    adopted in OS kernels". Burroughs (1964). Burroughs B5500 Information Processing System Reference Manual (PDF). Burroughs Corporation. 1021326. Retrieved...
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    Its systems included a command-and-control system developed by Burroughs Corporation. The electronics and communications system centralized and automated...
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  • second year at Caltech, and I was a consultant to Burroughs. After finishing my compiler for Burroughs, I joined the Product Planning Department. The Product...
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    Laboratories, and introduced in 1955 by Burroughs Corporation, who purchased Haydu. The name Nixie was derived by Burroughs from "NIX I", an abbreviation of...
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  • and eventually a word processor called the Data Secretary. The Burroughs Corporation acquired Redactron in 1976. A CRT-based system by Wang Laboratories...
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    J. Presper Eckert (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    company. He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in 1986. In 1989, Eckert retired from Unisys but...
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    continued as a subdivision for many years. Sperry merged in 1986 with Burroughs to form Unisys. Remington Rand was a regular co-sponsor of the CBS panel...
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    The B20 is a line of microcomputers from Burroughs Corporation. The systems, introduced in May 1982, consist of two models: the B21 and the B22. The B21...
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