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one key in any decade from being latched. The latching allowed the operator to quickly check that the correct number had been entered before pulling the operating lever. The numbers entered and the final total were printed on a roll of paper at the rear, so there was no danger of the operator writing down the wrong answer and there was a copy of the calculation which could be checked later if necessary.
813:. For a time, the combined company retained the Burroughs processors as the A- and V-systems lines. As the market for large systems shifted from proprietary architectures to common servers, the company eventually dropped the V-Series line, although customers continued to use V-series systems as of 2010. As of 2017 Unisys continues to develop and market the A-Series, now known as ClearPath.
381:, and sold well in the banking sector, where they were often connected to non-Burroughs mainframes. In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a medium systems such as B200/B300 and larger systems such as a B2700 or
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which governed the speed at which the operating lever could be pulled so allowing the mechanism to operate consistently correctly. The machine also had a full-keyboard with a separate column of keys 1 to 9 for each decade where the keys latch when pressed, with interlocking which prevented more than
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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. The D82 could have up to 32,768 words of core memory and continued the use of separate instruction and I/O processors. Burroughs sold a D82 to
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BLUE BELL, Pa., February 19, 2013 - Unisys
Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has been awarded the Enterprise Computing Center Support (ECCS) contract from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Under this single-award indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, the IRS can
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machines started with the B5000 in 1961. The B5500 came a few years later when large rotating disks replaced drums as the main external memory media. These B5000 Series systems used the world's first virtual memory multi-programming operating system. They were followed by the B6500/B6700 in the
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upon the position of the movable carriage. The range was further extended by the inclusion of the Series J ten-key machines which provided a single finger calculation facility, and the Class 5 (later called Series C) key-driven calculators in both manual and electrical assisted
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which was part of the ledger card. This balance was read into the accumulator when the card was inserted into the carriage. The
Sensitronic was followed by the E1000, E2000, E3000, E4000, E6000 and the E8000, which were computer systems supporting card reader/punches and a
448:. In fact, IBM's market share was so much larger than all of the others that this group was often referred to as "IBM and the Seven Dwarves." By 1972 when GE and RCA were no longer in the mainframe business, the remaining five companies behind IBM became known as the
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software for its reservations system. 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 two companies reached an out-of-court
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machine which was completed in 1965. A D84 processor/memory unit with 4096 words of memory occupied just 1.4 cubic feet (40 litres). This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force
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consider these series of computers to be technologically groundbreaking. Stack oriented processors, with 48 bit word length where each word was defined as data or program contributed significantly to a secure operating environment, long before
1541:, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 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.
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Minnesota. 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
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The Class 2 machine, called the "duplex" and built in the same basic style, provided a means of keeping two separate totals. The Class 6 machine was built for bookkeeping work and provided the ability for direct subtraction.
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provided an electronic display calculator. Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities. A revolutionary adding machine was the
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computer in the early 1960s. The ILLIAC had up to 128 parallel processors while the B6700 & B7700 only accommodated a total of 7 CPUs and/or I/O units (the 8th unit was the memory tester).
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Datatron 220. The first major computer product that came from this marriage was the B205 tube computer. In 1968 the L and TC series range was produced (e.g. the
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Burroughs-designed printers,
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later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid-1970s, and the A series in the 1980s. The underlying architecture of these machines is similar and continues today as the
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award Unisys task orders to provide support and maintenance services for the IRS computing environment, including Unisys ClearPath Dorado servers.
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Anderson, J. P.; Hoffman, S. A.; Shifman, J.; Williams, R. J. (1962). "D825 - a multiple-computer system for command & control".
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during the ledger posting operations and worked with a mechanical adder named a Crossfooter. The Sensimatic developed into the
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products, initially for banking institutions. This move began with Burroughs' purchase in June 1956, of the
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or "small systems" computers that were designed to be
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1097:"IBM and the Seven Dwarfs — Dwarf One: Burroughs"
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1338:, Burroughs press release, February 3, 2010.
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1957:Manufacturing companies established in 1886
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1560:Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System
1375:""Starring the Computer: Burroughs B205""
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373:. These were popular as branch
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1426:Gray, George (October 1999).
1258:Gray, George (October 1999).
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1922:Companies based in St. Louis
1082:Burroughs Annual Report 1968
709:Burroughs collaborated with
475:Developments and innovations
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1639:Ian Joyner's Burroughs page
1405:Gray, George (March 1999).
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1845:List of UNIVAC products
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1751:Burroughs Large Systems
1707:Convergent Technologies
1490:, Academic Press (1973)
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1468:Mayer, Alastair J.W.,
1457:34(2), pp. 5–19.
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1442:on September 26, 2017.
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1118:"Burroughs B80 Family"
1053:Morgan, Bryan (1953).
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616:Binary Coded Decimal
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390:Federal Reserve Bank
347:Pasadena, California
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1417:(1). Archived from
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1270:(5). Archived from
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653:accounting machines
564:computer scientists
552:structured language
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333:Move into computers
221:An early Burroughs
191:mainframe computers
153:St. Louis, Missouri
73:Mainframe computers
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1519:Unisys Corporation
1496:Wilner, Wayne T.,
1361:""B205 On Screen""
1334:2010-04-14 at the
1290:2014-11-29 at the
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1158:The New York Times
938:Plymouth, Michigan
893:Payment processors
882:Plymouth, Michigan
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786:Merger with Sperry
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556:Work Flow Language
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