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.

* 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.

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.

Several years later Evanier began writing foreign comic books for the Walt Disney Studio Program, then from 1972 to 1976 wrote scripts for Gold Key Comics, along with comics for the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.

Foster's Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novels, began January 7, 1929, continuing until Rex Maxon took over the Tarzan daily on June 10, 1929.

In September 1968, Smithson published the essay " A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects " in Artforum that promoted the work of the first wave of land art artists, and in 1969 he began producing land art pieces to further explore concepts gained from his readings of William S. Burroughs, J. G.

After graduating from Burroughs High School in 1990, he began playing in a band called Of All Things he formed with two friends, covering songs by Descendents.

Under the new management, Burroughs began to produce office furniture, industrial shelving, and storage units.

In 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife.

Early in 1946, she began a long-term relationship with the predominantly gay Burroughs.

XCOM began as an Algol program running on Burroughs machines, translating XPL source code into System / 360 machine code.

Burroughs began work on A Princess of Mars in the summer of 1911 when he was 35.

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.

Burroughs enjoyed good physical and mental health during his later years until only a few months before his death when he began to experience lapses in memory and show general signs of advanced age including declining heart function.

Burroughs began writing Thuvia, Maid of Mars, in April 1914, at the time describing it as a ' Carthoris ' story.

It was here that Burroughs completed the text of Naked Lunch and began his lifelong collaboration with Brion Gysin.

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.

Burroughs began it largely at the request and insistence of Allen Ginsberg, who was impressed by Burroughs ’ s letter-writing skill.

Ginsberg recommended Grauerholz to Burroughs as a possible assistant and their working relationship began in this simple manner, yet grew to be a major factor in the popularization of Burroughs and his works.

In the 2000s, Ludlow has been introduced to a new generation of psychedelics users through Terence McKenna, who read chapters from The Hasheesh Eater for a set of tapes (“ Victorian Tales of Cannabis ”) put out by Sound Photosynthesis, and who regularly praised Ludlow in his books, saying Ludlow “ began a tradition of pharmo-picaresque literature that would find later practitioners in William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson .… Part genius, part madman, Ludlow lies halfway between Captain Ahab and P. T.

Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles ; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage Mars, The Prince of Helium, and The War Lord of Mars.

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

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Other professional contemporary writers such as David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs have specialized in writing amusing essays in the form of memoirs.

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.

Rather than attempting a straight adaptation, Cronenberg took a few elements from the book and combined them with elements of Burroughs ' life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than the book itself.

Latahs are a recurring theme in the writing of William S. Burroughs.

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

For serial publication, Burroughs used the pen name " Normal Bean ," chosen as a type of pun to stress that he was in his right mind, as he feared ridicule for writing such a fantastic story.

In The Chessmen of Mars, Burroughs even includes a reference to the chess games he played with his real life assistant, John Shea, while writing the novel.

Whitman encouraged Burroughs to develop his nature writing as well as his philosophical and literary essays.

Even if Burroughs ' writing was not wholly original, it at least popularized the concept of pulp-style adventures on other planets.

Kline is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations ( Planet of Peril ( 1929 ) and two sequels ) of Burroughs's Martian novels, though set on Venus ; Burroughs, the story goes, then retaliated by writing his own Venus novels, whereupon Kline responded with an even more direct intrusion on Burroughs's territory by boldly setting two novels on Mars.

When he first met Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, they were interested in writing and also unpublished.

Burroughs is currently writing the screenplay for two upcoming television series: he is working on a Showtime series based on his memoir, Dry, and writing a drama series for CBS titled The Nature of Fire, which follows a group of male firefighters.

In 1974, Olson earned the John Burroughs Medal, the highest honor in nature writing.

* ERBapa-dedicated to the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs

After many rejection letters, Burroughs stopped writing.

Burroughs chose to use the pseudonym " William Lee ", Lee being his mother's maiden name, for the writing credit.

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 ).

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

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

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

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.

In 1977, Burroughs and Gysin published The Third Mind, a collection of cut-up writings and essays on the form.

His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

He felt the connection between his screenwriting style and Burroughs ' prose style was so strong, that he jokingly remarked that should Burroughs pass on, " I'll just write his next book.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

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.

Voyages to Mars in the Burroughs style, but set on a Mars of the past.

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

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle.

In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his three-decade-long series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars and featuring John Carter as the hero.

Simula spread to several countries around the world and SIMULA I was later implemented on Burroughs B5500 computers and the Russian URAL-16 computer.

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets — a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs — premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990.

William S. Burroughs also guests on vocals on "' Tain't No Sin ".