The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.

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.

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 September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

* Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

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.

* Burroughs Corporation Photo Database at the Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.

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.

Smith reviews his 46½ year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( later Burroughs Corporation ).

Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities.

* 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 also further developed the " fold-in " technique.

From his peers he developed a taste for counterculture: he and his friends would steal the records and books of their older siblings – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mothers of Invention.

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.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

Many terminal emulators have been developed for terminals such as VT100, VT220, VT320, IBM 3270 / 8 / 9 / E, IBM 5250, IBM 3179G, Data General D211, Hewlett Packard HP700 / 92, Sperry / Unisys 2000-series UTS60, Burroughs / Unisys A-series T27 / TD830 / ET1100, ADDS ViewPoint, Sun console, QNX, AT386, SCO-ANSI, SNI 97801, Televideo, and Wyse 50 / 60.

William Burroughs used the cut-up technique developed by Brion Gysin to remix language in the 1960s.

It was written using the cut-up method, developed by Burroughs with Brion Gysin, of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel.

While in 1956 it branded as the B205 a machine produced by a company it bought, its first internally developed machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought to address its late entry in the market with the strategy of a completely different design based on the most advanced computing ideas available at the time.

Libraries were introduced to MCP systems in the early 1980s having been developed by Roy Guck and others at Burroughs.

He managed a system programming group in 1959 which developed an ALGOL-like compiler for Burroughs.

Memetic Engineering developed from diverse influences, including cutting-edge physics of consciousness and memetics research, chaos theory, semiotics, culture jamming, military information warfare, and the viral texts of iconoclasts William S. Burroughs, J. G.

The dual-stack principle was originated three times independently: for Burroughs large systems, Forth and PostScript, and is used in some Java virtual machines.

Other attractions include Ernest Hemingway's birthplace home and his boyhood home, the Ernest Hemingway Museum, and the three Oak Park homes of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

In the 1970s, Burroughs Corporation was organized into three divisions with very different product line architectures for high-end, mid-range, and entry-level business computer systems.

However, a bright young student named Donald Knuth had previously implemented ALGOL 58 on an earlier Burroughs machine during the three months of his summer break.

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.

Dylan Thomas described Nightwood as " one of the three great prose books ever written by a woman ," while William Burroughs called it " one of the great books of the twentieth century.

These contacts resulted in three of Mottram's best-known critical books-William Burroughs: the algebra of need ( 1971, British edition 1977 ), Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties ( 1972 ) and Paul Bowles: staticity & terror ( 1976 ).

In 1999, the first seven of these were reprinted in three graphic novels by Dark Horse Comics as Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan of the Apes ( Tarzan of the Apes, Return, Beasts, and Son of Tarzan ), Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan — The Jewels of Opar, and Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan The Untamed ( Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible ).

The Burroughs B1000 Series of computers consisted of three major generations which were the B1700, B1800, and B1900 series machines originally introduced in the 1970s with continued software development until 1987.

The three Burroughs architectures represent solving this problem by building hardware aligned with high-level languages.

John Burroughs ( LE ) states that the events took place over three successive nights ( pm into am ); 24 – 25, 25 – 26 and 26 – 27 December 1980.

He re-optioned MGM's contract for a third Weissmuller film and approved the sale of three of Sol Lesser's remaining four options to MGM, who agreed to make a large " authorisation payment " to Burroughs.

In order to address this need, TCA added a second system known as Pioneer, which could link ReserVec's three letter passenger codes with the full passenger records held on a Burroughs D-82 computer ( originally designed for US military use ).

Its history ranges nearly three centuries and several reincarnations, publishing the likes of William Wordsworth, William S. Burroughs and John Keats.

Using primitive Burroughs, later IBM, minicomputers, Dunnigan put together a highly sophisticated system to obtain marketing information from his customers.

Touring rock clubs in the 1970s with Burroughs, Giorno continued to develop an amplified, confrontational performance poetry that was highly influential on what became the Poetry Slam scene, as well as the performance art of Karen Finley and Penny Arcade, and the early Industrial music of Throbbing Gristle and Suicide.

These ideas, which may have already have occurred to Burroughs, appeared to be highly inspirational.

With the help of George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion, two pharmaceutical chemists who were working at the Burroughs Wellcome Co. in Tuckahoe, many purine analogues were tested, culminating in the discovery of 6-mercaptopurine ( 6-MP ), which was subsequently shown to be a highly active antileukemic drug.