Burroughs B205 hardware has appeared as props in many Hollywood television and film productions from the 1960s onwards.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences.

Burroughs has also used this technique extensively in his other novels, particularly the tales of Pellucidar.

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.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

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.

With a firm knowledge of classical music and Russian literature, she has been described by Schreiber as a " far-out Socialist Labor Party hippie bohemian freak who hung out with William Burroughs.

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.

Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs ' character Tarzan.

While the list of those serving has not been preserved, among those who are known to have been in the Continental army were Thomas Thompson, Major Thomas Frothingham, Ebenezer Lane, Daniel Peck, David Arnold, Henry Wetby, Joseph Huntington, John Croat and Robert Burroughs: Among those serving in the War of 1812 were Peter Sipperly, Philip Snyder, Paul Wattenpaugh and Philip Lafite.

Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Jean Dupuy, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Gordon, Adrian Belew, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed.

Since the 1986 marriage of Burroughs and Sperry, Unisys has metamorphosed from a computer manufacturer to a computer services and outsourcing firm, competing in the same marketplace as IBM, Electronic Data Systems ( EDS ), and Computer Sciences Corporation.

She has become legendary as the wife of William S. Burroughs, documented in Kerouac's novels, and killed by Burroughs in a drunken game of William Tell.

This book has been described by William S. Burroughs as " the most concise statement of the logic of modern magic.

He has cited Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Bernhard, Edgar Allan Poe, Bruno Schulz, Emil Cioran and William S. Burroughs among his favorite writers.

The initial simplicity of Burroughs ' well-worn pursuit plot is elaborated by Hadron's rescue of an escaped slave, Tavia, from a band of six-limbed green Tharks, en route to the city of Jahar where Hadron believes Sanoma Tora has been taken.

John Burroughs has long had a school philosophy of liberal and progressive education.

MICDS has a standing athletic rivalry with the nearby John Burroughs School, which MICDS has beaten 29 out of the last 31 years in football.

Since Cortázar ’ s death in 1984, there has been a great deal of ambiguity regarding the classification of the ‘ novel without genre .’ Works such as William S. Burroughs ' 1962 novel, The Ticket That Exploded, and Thomas Pynchon's V., published the same year as Hopscotch, have earned similar reputations.

* It has been claimed that the novel impressed the Beat Generation writers in the 1960s such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.

The MCP was the first commercial OS to provide virtual memory, which has been supported by the Burroughs large systems architecture since its inception.

Some mainframes designed in the 1960s, such as the Burroughs B5000 and its successors, had special instructions for array indexing that included index-bounds checking ..

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.

* 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.

In the early 1960s Ace reintroduced Edgar Rice Burroughs ' work, which had long been out of print, and in 1965, Ace bought the paperback rights to Dune.

* 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.

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.

In addition, Le Pétomane was added to David Lee's 2007 reworked revival of the 1953 Broadway play Can-Can, which had originally been written by Abe Burroughs and Cole Porter.

Burroughs even had another Haydu tube that could operate as a digital counter and directly drive a Nixie tube for display.

On or about his eleventh birthday, he " had gotten The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars " by Edgar Rice Burroughs, books which " opened up a complete new world for me.

Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle had a cassette library including recordings by the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kraftwerk, Charles Manson, and William S. Burroughs.

The novel was accepted and published by Grove Press, which had already released works by William S. Burroughs.

The takeover came about even after Sperry used a " poison pill " in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid.

Among the Giorno-released recordings was You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, a double-album shared with Giorno and William Burroughs ( the original release had one LP side for each artist, with the fourth side triple-grooved, one for each, so you'd get a different one, depending on where you put the needle down ).

Inspired by William S. Burroughs ' cut-up technique, Oswald had been devising plunderphonic-style compositions since the late ' 60s.

Carr had befriended freshman Allen Ginsberg and introduced him to Kammerer and Burroughs.

Burroughs had an interest in criminal behavior and got involved in dealing stolen goods and narcotics.

The novel You Can't Win by Jack Black had a strong influence on Burroughs.

They formed a new Advanced Computing division, and had the machine moved to the Burroughs Corporation Paoli Research Center in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

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.

These features had all been inspired by Burroughs B5500-B6800 mainframe stack machines.

Both had semantics similar to C but a syntax based on Burroughs ' ALGOL.

Although previous artists such as William S. Burroughs had experimented with the idea of manipulating a reel to reel tape manually for the sounds produced ( such as with his 1950s recording, " Sound Piece "), vinyl scratching as an element of hip hop pioneered the idea of making the sound an integral and rhythmic part of music instead of uncontrolled noise.

" In a June 1960 letter to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac said he was pleased that Burroughs had credited him with the title.

The group displayed a banner that read, “ SELL WELLCOME ” referring to the pharmaceutical sponsor of AZT, Burroughs Wellcome, which had set a price of approximately $ 10, 000 per patient per year for the drug, well out of reach of nearly all HIV positive persons.