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Burroughs sold a D82 to Air Canada to handle reservations for trips originating in Montreal and Quebec.
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Burroughs and sold
In 2010, UNISYS sold off its Payment Systems Division to Marlin Equity Partners, a California-based private investment firm, which incorporated it as Burroughs Payment Systems based in Plymouth, Michigan.
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.
In the 1970s, after GE sold its computer business to Honeywell and RCA sold its to Univac, the analogy to the seven dwarfs became less apt and the remaining small firms became known as the " BUNCH " ( Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell ).
Burroughs subdivided and sold the land for residential development with neighboring small farms following suit.
For this reason, Burroughs was free to distribute the source code of all software it sold, including the MCP, which was designed with this openness in mind.
In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation.
Ace published no hardcover books, only cheap paperbacks, which sold for very little ; Burroughs earned less than a cent royalty on each purchase.
Over the next six years, Burroughs and its successor Unisys shut down, sold off or spun out the various parts of Memorex.
Burroughs and D82
* Burroughs developed a half-size version of the D825 called the D82, cutting the word size from 48 to 24 bits and simplifying the computer's instruction set.
Burroughs and Air
Following the cancellation of SMiLE, The Beach Boys relocated to a studio situated in the living room of Brian Wilson's new mansion in Bel Air ( once the home of Edgar Rice Burroughs ), where the band would primarily record until 1972.
Burroughs and Canada
At this point Burroughs Canada was brought in to sell and support them.
In 1967, he briefly took a position at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada before moving on to working for Burroughs in Los Angeles as a Systems Analyst.
Burroughs and reservations
* 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 and for
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 ..
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.
Like IBM, Burroughs tried to supply a complete line of products for its customers, including Burroughs-designed printers, disk drives, tape drives, computer printing paper, and even typewriter ribbons.
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.
And Burroughs built the backbone switching systems for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( SWIFT ) which sent its first message in 1977.
The designation for these systems was Burroughs B2500 through B49xx, followed by Unisys V-Series V340 through V560.
* 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.
These microcomputers were later manufactured in Kunming, China for use in China under agreement with Burroughs.
* Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 ( the " D " prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use ), in its Great Valley Laboratory in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
TWA sued Burroughs for non-fulfillment of the contract, but Burroughs counter-sued, stating that the basic system did work and that the problems were in TWA's applications software.
The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.
Auerbach discusses his work at Burroughs 1949 – 1957 managing development for the SAGE project, BEAM I computer, the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System, a magnetic core encryption communications system, and Atlas missile.
William S. Burroughs taught the cut-up technique to musician Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for " altering reality ".
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.
Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.
Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.
* 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.
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 ).
Seth Putnam's lyrics are notorious for their black comedy, while The Locust tend toward satirical collage, indebted to William S. Burroughs ' cut-up method.
Burroughs and trips
The couple made trips to Paris, where they visited Mason Hoffenberg, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and to London, where Southern met Henry Green and Kenneth Tynan.
Some of Burroughs ' best essays came out of trips back to his native Catskills.
Burroughs and Quebec
Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, the son of Burroughs and Marie ( Desautels ) Pelletier, Pelletier was educated at the College des Jesuits in Quebec City and the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières.
Burroughs and .
William Burroughs went to a Korzybski workshop in the Autumn of 1939.
* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer
* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
* Burroughs, William S. and Allen Ginsberg.
Category: William S. Burroughs
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.
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 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).
In 1904, six years after Burroughs ' death, the company moved to Detroit and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities.
In time, Burroughs was selling more than adding machines, including typewriters.
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 terms of sales, Burroughs was always a distant second to IBM.
At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor.
Burroughs made special MICR / OCR sorter / readers which attached to their medium systems line of computers ( 2700 / 3700 / 4700 ) and this entrenched the company in the computer side of the banking industry.
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