The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sperry merged in 1986 with Burroughs to form Unisys.

* Sperry Corporation, a former American equipment and electronics manufacturer ( 1910 – 1986 )

** Sperry Corporation, 1978 – 1986

In 1986, Ford expanded its tractor business when it purchased the Sperry-New Holland skid-steer loader and hay baler, hay tools and implement company from Sperry Corporation and formed Ford-New Holland which bought out Versatile tractors in 1988.

In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems.

; Burroughs & UNIVAC: In September 1986, after Burroughs purchased Sperry ( the parent company of UNIVAC ), the name of the company was changed to Unisys.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a video game console re-released by Atari Corporation in January 1986.

After World War I and until 1986, Accrington Corporation buses were painted in the regimental colours of red and blue with gold lining.

In 1986, Bit Corporation produced a ColecoVision clone called the Dina, which was sold in the United States by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade.

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986.

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

The Fox Broadcasting Company network, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, was launched on October 9, 1986 after the company purchased the television assets of Metromedia.

* Exxon Corporation, 1976, 1980, 1982 – 1984, 1986

Katz, unpopular among fans since the 1986 trades, sold the team to Comcast Spectacor, a consortium of Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider and Comcast Corporation, at the end of the 1995 – 96 season.

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

In 1996, News Corporation, which launched the over-the-air general-interest Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986, entered a joint venture with TCI's Liberty Media and rebranded their Prime Network affiliates as " Fox Sports Net.

* John F. Jacobs, The SAGE Air Defense System: A Personal History ( MITRE Corporation, 1986 ) also contains much material on the Whirlwind

By 1986 the number of mainframe makers had dropped from 8 ( IBM and the " seven dwarfs ") to 6 ( IBM and the " BUNCH ") to 4: IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Control Data Corporation.

The mill was owned by Crown Zellerbach until 1986 and its brown paper successor Gaylord Container Corporation until 2002, when Gaylord was acquired by Temple-Inland Corporation, the area's largest employer.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

Sharjah's small force was merged into the UDF in 1986.

Formed in 1986, it acquired ( and subsequently merged ) the Computer Film Company in 1997.

* United States Rubber Company, changed its name to Uniroyal in 1961, merged with private B. F. Goodrich in 1986, bought by Michelin in 1990.

Taken over by Avommore Dairies in 1986, which merged with Waterford to form Glanbia in 1997 ).

Three colleges merged with IIT after the 1940 Armor / Lewis merger: Institute of Design in 1949, Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1969, and Midwest College of Engineering in 1986.

In apparent response to the call by the Sixth National Party Congress in 1986 for a streamlined bureaucracy, several ministries were merged.

Other industries which started in Wilkes County are Lowes Foods ( now headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) and The Northwestern Bank, which was once North Carolina's fourth-largest banking chain until it was merged with the Wachovia Bank in 1986.

Over the years the two parks were gradually enlarged and then merged under the current name in 1986.

Melcher and Dallas were separate cities until they merged into one city in 1986.

The rest of Giessendam's territory went to the new municipality of Giessenburg which in turn was merged with Giessenlanden in 1986.

The Seaboard Air Line merged with its rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, on July 1, 1967, becoming the Seaboard Coast Line ; in 1983 this became the Seaboard System, and in 1986, after combination with the holdings of the Chessie System, was renamed CSX.

R. J. Reynolds Industries merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985, and the name changed to RJR Nabisco in August 1986.

MGM and UA were merged into MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from 1981 to 1986.

He is a former CEO of Pepsi Cola ( which merged with Herman Lay's Frito Lay, Inc. to become PepsiCo in 1965 ) and served as CEO of PepsiCo from 1971 to 1986.

After having merged Pepsi Cola with Frito Lay in 1965, Kendall gained the top spot of chairman and CEO in 1971 and he retired in 1986.

In 1986, its pharmaceutical business was spun off as Celgene, and, in 1987, Celanese Corporation was acquired by Hoechst and merged with its American subsidiary, American Hoechst, to form Hoechst Celanese Corporation.