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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 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 also manufactured an extensive range of accounting machines including both stand-alone systems such as the Sensimatic, L500 and B80, and dedicated terminals including the TC500 and specialised check processing equipment.
* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.
Burroughs also suggested cut-ups may be effective as a form of divination saying, " When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
" Burroughs also further developed the " fold-in " technique.
Burroughs has also used this technique extensively in his other novels, particularly the tales of Pellucidar.
With the assistance of Grech and one of the bassist's friends, a doctor who also dabbled in country music and is now known as Hank Wangford, Parsons managed to kick his heroin habit once and for all ( a treatment suggested by William Burroughs proved unsuccessful ).
Jaynes's ideas have also influenced writers such as William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Robert J. Sawyer, Philip K. Dick, and Ken Wilber.
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.
RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.
At the time, his favorites were also Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, as well as comic books.
The first computers to implement architectures enabling RPN were the English Electric Company's KDF9 machine, which was announced in 1960 and delivered ( i. e. made available commercially ) in 1963, and the American Burroughs B5000, announced in 1961 and also delivered in 1963.
Of them, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs — both Greenwich Village residents — also wrote bluntly and honestly about homosexuality.
William S. Burroughs also guests on vocals on "' Tain't No Sin ".
Trilogies can also be connected in less obvious ways, such as The Nova Trilogy of novels by William S. Burroughs, each written using Brion Gysin's cut-up technique.
He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.
Thoreau also influenced naturalists like John Burroughs, John Muir, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Joseph Wood Krutch, B. F. Skinner, David Brower and Loren Eiseley, whom Publishers Weekly called " the modern Thoreau.
In 2009 Oneworld Publications reissued Man at Leisure ( 1972 ), complete with the original introduction by William Burroughs, and in 2011 Oneworld Publications also re-released Cain's Book, with a foreword by Tom McCarthy.
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.
Musicians also cite writers such as William S. Burroughs, and philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche as influences.
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After the main material follow three appendices, the first explaining the title ( as mentioned above ) and two accounts of Burroughs ' own drug abuse and treatment using apomorphine.
After the Crucial Three, Julian Cope and Pete Wylie formed The Nova Mob, a conceptual band named after a gang mentioned in William Burroughs ' novel ' Nova Express '.
Others influenced by Burroughs and his John Carter books include James Cameron, who mentioned the influence on his science-fiction epic Avatar in The New Yorker magazine, and George Lucas, whose Star Wars movies were influenced by Flash Gordon, which in turn was influenced by Burroughs.
In an interview he gave to William S. Burroughs in 1975, Page mentioned that at the time the song was composed, none of the band members had ever been to Kashmir.
* It is mentioned in And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.
The book concludes with a section of annotations by Grauerholz describing events in Burroughs ' life at the time of the journal entries, along with explanations for some references and people mentioned in the entries.
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Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).
* Many works by William S. Burroughs, including The Yage Letters, Junkie, Queer and Naked Lunch
The series consisted of four programs, beginning with Junkie and followed by The Yage Letters, read by Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and, finally, Naked Lunch.
The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
In April 2006, City Lights Books published Yage Letters Redux, a new edition of the book edited by Oliver Harris ( who has previously edited other collections of correspondence by Burroughs ).
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In 1987, Jackie Burroughs produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in A Winter Tan, a film based on the letters of Maryse Holder, published in 1979 as the book Give Sorrow Words – Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico.
* The Life and Letters of John Burroughs by Clara Barrus ( Volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1925 )
* William S. Burroughs, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters novelist, production and composition for Old Western Movies from Kicks Joy Darkness.
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At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor.
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 ).
At this time Burroughs became interested in solving the problem of creating an adding machine.
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.
At this point Burroughs Canada was brought in to sell and support them.
At the time that Burroughs was writing, orgone accumulators were only available from Reich's Orgone Institute in New York, offered for a ten dollar per month donation.
At this time Burroughs had been convicted of prescription forgery and was sentenced to return to his parents ' care in St. Louis, Missouri.
* At the Earth's Core ( novel ) ( 1914 ), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs ( Brent Jennings ) and Arthur Brock.
At the age of 17 Burroughs left home to earn the money he needed for college by teaching at a school in Olive, New York.
At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Franklin Burroughs envisioned turning New Town into a tourist destination rivaling the Florida and northeastern beaches.
Critic William Fulwiler argues that Edgar Rice Burroughs ' At the Earth's Core was one of Lovecraft's primary inspirations for " The Nameless City ", citing " the reptile race, the tunnel to the interior of the earth, and the ' hidden world of eternal day '" as elements common to both tales.
At the end of the book, when Burroughs is living in his own apartment with Natalie, he is asked to choose between his mother and Dr. Finch when she accuses the doctor of raping her.
* Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote adventure stories ( beginning with At the Earth's Core in 1914 ) set in the inner world of Pellucidar including at one point a visit from his character Tarzan.
* The 1976 film At the Earth's Core is based on Burroughs ' novel.
At a pre-wedding party, Sarah learns from her grandmother Katharine that her mother Jocelyn ran off to Cabo San Lucas to spend time with her prep school classmate Beau Burroughs the week before her wedding to Sarah's father Earl.
At times these drew on the pulp traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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