The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

The Burroughs Corporation developed three highly innovative architectures, based on the design philosophy of " language directed design ".

In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

* Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

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 Unisys Corporation in 1986.

* Burroughs Corporation Photo Database at the Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.

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.

Smith reviews his 46½ year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( later Burroughs Corporation ).

* Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

The Black Rider is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs.

Steven Jay " Jesse " Bernstein ( December 4, 1950 – October 22, 1991 ) was a Jewish American underground writer and performance artist who is most famous for his recordings with Sub Pop Records and close relationship with William S. Burroughs.

Clear on the other hand ( released on the Stoned Heights imprint of Island Records ), bore heavy references to the writings-and infamous lifestyle-of William Burroughs: the cover was an homage to the advert poster of the Naked Lunch movie ; Bug Powder Dust was a mish-mash of Burroughs references and mirror of the author's cut-up writing method ; whilst the constant references to drug use, and the reliance on spoken word across most of the albums tracks would suggest an updated return to the Beat marriage of music and poetry.

* Burroughs Corporation Records ( CBI 90 )

William Burroughs went to a Korzybski workshop in the Autumn of 1939.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

* Burroughs, William S. and Allen Ginsberg.

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And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, Burroughs also produced related equipment as well, including typewriters and printers.

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

In 1904, six years after Burroughs ' death, the company moved to Detroit and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities.

In time, Burroughs was selling more than adding machines, including typewriters.

In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a larger system such as a B2700 or B1700.

In terms of sales, Burroughs was always a distant second to IBM.

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, disk drives, tape drives, computer printing paper, and even typewriter ribbons.

In the 1950s, Burroughs had worked with the Federal Reserve Bank on the development and computer processing of magnetic ink character recognition ( MICR ) especially for the processing of bank cheques.

Burroughs made special MICR / OCR sorter / readers which attached to their medium systems line of computers ( 2700 / 3700 / 4700 ) and this entrenched the company in the computer side of the banking industry.

By this time, The Cryptic Corporation was operating as a partnership and incorporated to take over the running of Ralph Records.

In 1938, CBS even acquired the American Record Corporation, parent of its onetime investor Columbia Records.

* Records of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

* Control Data Corporation Records at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis ; CDC records donated by Ceridian Corporation in 1991 ; finding guide contains historical timeline, product timeline, acquisitions list, and joint venture list.

In 1955, ABC established a recording division, the AmPar Record Corporation, which founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records ( which became ABC Records in 1965 ) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961.

* Control Data Corporation Records, 1946-1991 at the Charles Babbage Institute

Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records ( RCA ).

In 1990, following a series of major takeovers that saw CBS Records acquired by the Sony Corporation of Japan, EMI sold its remaining rights to the Columbia name to Sony and the label is now operated exclusively throughout the world by Sony Music Entertainment ; except in Japan where the trade mark is owned by Columbia Music Entertainment,

The Philippine branch of EMI changed its name to PolyEast Records, and is now a joint venture between EMI itself and Pied Piper Records Corporation.

In 1993, amid ongoing negotiations with East West Records, Norwood's parents organized a recording contract with the Atlantic Recording Corporation after auditioning for the company's director of A & R, Darryl Williams.

Bright Eyes is signed to Saddle Creek Records, a Nebraska-based label founded by Conor Oberst's brother Justin Oberst and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis, and distributed by Sony Corporation.

On April 14, 1960, Motown and Tamla Records merged into a new company called Motown Record Corporation.

Tamla is actually the company's original label: Gordy founded Tamla Records several months before establishing the Motown Record Corporation.

The late 1990s saw renewed interest in the Electric Prunes, with the release on Heartbeat Records of Stockholm, a concert recorded by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation while the ( original ) Prunes were on tour there in 1967.

* Control Data Corporation Records, William C. Norris Executive Papers, 1946-1995.