* Allweiss, Jack A., " Evolution of Burroughs Stack Architechture-Mainframe Computers ", 2010

" Some Burroughs Transistor Computers ", Unisys History Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 1, March 1999.

" Burroughs B6500 / B7500 Stack Mechanism ", SJCC ( 1968 ) pp. 245 – 251.

* Martin, Ian L. ( 2012 ) " Too far ahead of its time: Barclays, Burroughs and real-time banking ", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34 ( 2 ), pp. 5-19.

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

* " Burroughs B 5000 Conference, OH 98 ", Oral history on 6 September 1985, Marina del Ray, California.

* " Early Burroughs Machines ", University of Virginia's Computer Museum.

New Wave writers began to look outside the traditional scope of science fiction for influence, and many looked to the example of beat writer William S. Burroughs, to the point where New Wave authors Philip José Farmer and Barrington J. Bayley wrote pastiches of his work (" The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod " and " The Four Colour Problem ", respectively ) and J. G. Ballard published an admiring essay in an issue of New Worlds.

They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs (" A Different Kind of Tension "), declaiming their catechism in the anthem " I Believe ", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard (" Radio Nine ").

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

Writing in 1933, art historian Bryson Burroughs, who at that time attributed to Hubert the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and whom he describes as " the fountainhead of northern painting ", suggests he did the underdrawing for the Ghent Altarpiece with Jan painting in after his brother's death.

The names " Dejah Thoris ", " Burroughs ", and " Carter " are overt references to John Carter and Dejah Thoris, the main protagonists of the Barsoom ( Mars ) novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The name Nixie was derived by Burroughs from " NIX I ", an abbreviation of " Numeric Indicator eXperimental No. 1.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

In the process, King Solomon's Mines created a new genre, known as the " Lost World ", which would inspire Edgar Rice Burroughs ' The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

I Disconnect From You ", " Praying to the Aliens ", and " Only a Downstat ", influenced directly by Burroughs ' Scientology-based writings.

The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, such as the disfiguring of compact discs in live performance, known as " CDestruction ", and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs.

Being fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after " Steely Dan III from Yokohama ", a strap-on dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.

The designation for these systems was Burroughs B2500 through B49xx, followed by Unisys V-Series V340 through V560.

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.

Unisys manufactures ClearPath mainframes, based on earlier Burroughs products and ClearPath mainframes based on OS1100 product lines.

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.

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company ( 1886 ), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( 1904 ), then the Burroughs Corporation ( 1953 ) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

* November 11 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

* Burroughs ( Unisys ) MCP ( 1961 – present )

Many terminal emulators have been developed for terminals such as VT100, VT220, VT320, IBM 3270 / 8 / 9 / E, IBM 5250, IBM 3179G, Data General D211, Hewlett Packard HP700 / 92, Sperry / Unisys 2000-series UTS60, Burroughs / Unisys A-series T27 / TD830 / ET1100, ADDS ViewPoint, Sun console, QNX, AT386, SCO-ANSI, SNI 97801, Televideo, and Wyse 50 / 60.

He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in 1986.

Other architectures are Unisys – formerly Univac – Distributed Computing Architecture ( DCA ) and – formerly Burroughs – Burroughs Network Architecture ( BNA ), both largely obsolete by 2012.

They were also known as the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and finally Unisys ICON when Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to form Unisys in 1986.

It wasn't long after this that Sperry and Burroughs merged to form Unisys in 1986.

In 1986, after the success of a second hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs ' CEO and former U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, Michael Blumenthal, Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys.

A few years earlier, naturalist John Burroughs had published an article entitled " Real and Sham Natural History " in the Atlantic Monthly, attacking popular writers of the day such as Ernest Thompson Seton, Charles G. D. Roberts and William J.

Writer Douglas Kahn, in his work Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts ( 1999 ), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

* Bohnett, Brian J., Them Was The Days: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the History of the Michigan Military Academy ( 2001 )

In 1903, after publishing an article entitled " Real and Sham Natural History " in the Atlantic Monthly, Burroughs began a widely publicized literary debate known as the nature fakers controversy.

* The Life and Letters of John Burroughs by Clara Barrus ( Volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1925 )

The Logan-Rogersville High School Wildcats beat out John Burroughs High School for the 2011 Class 3 Missouri State High School Football Championship.

* April 3 – John Burroughs ( died 1921 ), naturalist.

# " Flash Pan Hunter " ( music: Waits, lyrics: Burroughs ) – 3: 10

John Burroughs ( April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921 ) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement.

Walker Evans photograph of 3 sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, Summer 1936