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

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.

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.

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.

* The Burroughs large systems machines started with the B5000 in 1961.

* Burroughs produced the B1700 or " small systems " computers that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the program being run.

* In 1982, Burroughs began producing personal computers, the B20 and B25 lines with the Intel 8086 / 8088 family of 8-bit chips as the processor.

These microcomputers were later manufactured in Kunming, China for use in China under agreement with Burroughs.

* Burroughs collaborated with University of Illinois on a multiprocessor architecture developing the ILLIAC IV computer in the early 1960s.

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

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.

* Oral history interview with Alfred Doughty Cavanaugh Cavanaugh discusses the work of his grandfather, A. J. Doughty, with William Seward Burroughs and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

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 Europe.

* UbuWeb: William S. Burroughs featuring a cut-up, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens ( 1965 ), made with Ian Sommerville

Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.

Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

" Another character, Simon Moon, identifies what he calls the " 23 synchronicity principle ", which he credits William S. Burroughs as having discovered.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

In modern times an epiphany lies behind the title of William Burroughs ' Naked Lunch, a drug-influenced state, as Burroughs explained, " a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of the fork.

Burroughs writes about what occurred once he started using the accumulator:

This was done at the behest of public servant Burroughs Pelletier, who had been told that the Ministry wanted a symbol but were unsure as to what should be used.

The yell was a creation of the movies, based on what Burroughs described in his books as " the victory cry of the bull ape.

Its income was derived from what was originally called Burroughs Wellcome, later renamed in the UK as the Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

In the novel, Junkie, by William S. Burroughs, an addict trades what he claims is a Brooks Brothers jacket for two caps of heroin.

In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer by shooting her in the head in what was apparently a drunken attempt at playing William Tell.

Also, as a part of the study of the life of a junkie, is the character of Old Bull Gaines-Bill Garver, in real life, a long-time friend of William S. Burroughs and other writers of the Beat Generation-who serves as both dealer and healer of Tristessa when Jack is unable to be what she needs.

ESPOL ( short for Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language ) was a superset of ALGOL 60 that provided capabilities of what would later be known as Mohols, machine oriented high order languages, such as interrupting a processor on a multiprocessor system ( the Burroughs large systems were multiprocessor processor systems ).

While writing A Princess of Mars, Burroughs initiated what soon became a regular writing tool-maintaining worksheets relating to the piece he was completing.

Burroughs was buried in Roxbury, New York on what would have been his 84th birthday, at the foot of a rock he had played on as a child and affectionately referred to as ‘’ Boyhood Rock ’’.

Burroughs reached New York on June 23, and several days later mailed the finished typescript of what was still entitled " Carthoris ", describing it as " another Martian story " he wished " to sell for use in All-Story Cavalier Weekly ".

In Tangier, Gysin and Hamri founded the 1001 Nights restaurant, in which the musicians played throughout the 1950s to a largely Western audience in what was then an international zone, the " Interzone " of Burroughs ' fiction.

Touring rock clubs in the 1970s with Burroughs, Giorno continued to develop an amplified, confrontational performance poetry that was highly influential on what became the Poetry Slam scene, as well as the performance art of Karen Finley and Penny Arcade, and the early Industrial music of Throbbing Gristle and Suicide.

We got to a vantage point where we could determine that what we were chasing was only a beacon light off in the distance .” Burroughs ' statement also states that " We could see a beacon going around so we went towards it.

After giving the boy his drugs as an act of charity, the Priest returns to his room, reclines on his bed and dies, in what Burroughs calls " the immaculate fix.

His humiliations reduced him to living in an apartment in Chicago constantly ducking the Landlord when he was visited by Edgar Rice Burroughs about what he knows about Tarzan.

* In the " Venus series " of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Burroughs created a fictitious ' Venusian ' alphabet supposedly used by the Venusians ( or " Amtorians "-as " Amtor " is what the natives call their planet ).

Burroughs and Kahn perceived an opportunity to capitalize on what they perceived as the generally poor quality and high prices of existing microphones.