A History of Burroughs Corporation Computers & Machines to 1956 , UDEC, E101, UNISYS Educational
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- Good quality Burroughs promotional film showing early adding machines, calculators, accounting & printing machines and brief but very rare footage of early Burroughs digital computers the UDEC II and E 101. The UDEC (“Unitized Digital Electronic Computer”) was an enhanced version of the 1951 “Burroughs Laboratory Computer” built in Philadelphia. -- This film stops around 1956, the year that Burroughs acquired ElectroData Corporation of Pasadena, California. The acquisition of ElectroData greatly expanded Burroughs potential growth into the digital computer marketplace. (Also, please see our other videos for Burroughs 1960’s time period.)
A well-designed film with lots of footage of Burroughs assembly plants with men and women performing complex technical assembly tasks on various machines.
Data Processing and Digital Computer discussion starts at about time index 18:39. A Topic Index has been provided to help navigate to whatever you find interesting. Run time 27 minutes, with brief Photo Gallery at end. Provided for educational value and historical commentary, Computer History Archives Project.
Burroughs, founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company, acquired Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form UNISYS Corporation.
TOPIC INDEX
00:45
Burroughs Plants in various locations: - - -
Detroit, Michigan; Plymouth, Michigan; Los Angeles; Rochester, NY;
Plainfield, New Jersey; Brooklyn, NY; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Park Ridge, New Jersey; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Pantin, France; Gennevilliers, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nottingham, England;
Strathleven, Scotland; Dallas, Texas; Dearborn, Michigan; Paris, France
01:54
Burroughs male and female employees demonstrating a variety of technical work skills;
Building Adding Machines, Electronic Components, Television Tubes,
Mechanical Accounting Machines, Large Computing Machine,
Discussion of mass-production, assembly line manufacturing, shipping;
Growth of Burroughs Company
03:41
Re-enactment of William S. Burroughs’s workshop;
World’s first practical adding machine, 1886
05:00
Women using adding machines; 10-Key machine, machine being produced by workers
Printing Bookkeeping Machine, Typewriter Accounting Machines
08:06
Time track of historic events, 1913 Income Tax Law increases demand for accounting
08:27
Impact of World War I on labor force;1930’sgovernment accounting regulation increases; Social security laws, hourly wage law, income tax withholding; Office Machines, Check Protector, Acquisitions and Growth, bank checks
12:10
Ticketing Machine: Burroughs Micro-Twin, Microfilming Machine
13:24
Electronics; laboratory research; analysis, measurement, testing
Vacuum Tube production, Magnetic Cores, pluggable vacuum tube units, Integrating mechanical, electromechanical and electronic machines
16:12
Sensotronic machine; Bank statement posting
Sensimatic, Tape-Punch machine (Punched Tape)
Character Recognition Machines, Tabulating Punch Cards,
18:39
Data Processing; fluorescent coding; bank check processing;
Bankomatic; Punched Paper Tape Reels
20:28
Unitized Digital Electronic Computer II (UDEC II) * * * *
Burroughs E 101 Computer * * * *
G 101 Accounting, Card Processing, Printing
22:38
Military Applications; navigational systems; targeting systems;
RADAR defense network “SAGE” (fighter plane images)
Summary topics; Executives meeting; design teams; service; sales;
training; product maintenance and repair
27:00
Copyright Unisys; Photo Gallery
27:50
End
Acknowledgements & Resources
Film courtesy of Unisys Corporation
VIPClubMN.org, (Retirees, former employees, etc. of Unisys, and their Twin Cities predecessor companies) www.VIPClubMN.org
"Survey of Electronic Digital Computing Systems," 1961, Weik, Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Prov. Ground, Courtesy of Ed Thelen;
www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BR...
Computer History Museum, Mountainview, CA
www.computerhistory.org
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1963 Burroughs Computer History, Datatron, ElectroData, B5000, B270 • 1963 Burroughs Compute...
1964 Burroughs Computer History (B5000, B280, BUIC D825; Unisys, Mainframe)
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12:20 That ticket machine is brilliant!
At one point in its history, Burroughs acquired a company called Electrodata. One of their machines, the 205, has a certain control panel feature prominently as a prop in several sci-fi-type TV series and movies. For example, it’s part of the controls for the Jupiter 2 in the _Lost In Space_ TV series.
I worked for the Burroughs Corporation in the late sixties. Burroughs was a great company with a long history of innovation. They went to great lengths to hire only the best of the best. Unfortunately, they didn't believe in paying people what they were worth. Most of their truly talented people left and became successful on their own. Now, this great company is just a side note in the history of the computer industry. Sad....
My husband John , worked for Burroughs for 21 years in Brazil, he was a Field Engineer, really a remarkable time, you right, sad to see the company today.
Hi where did you work? I was saying on another comment that my dad had the bookkeeping machine from Burroughs in his office from 1982 until 1989 or 1990. It was like a piece of furniture with the large row of lights, and tapes for memory storeage. When I first saw that machine I was impressed.
Did you how I can find a man named Ted who was a repairman in 1967 in Toronto?
I remember when i was in high school, in the early 90's, they were still using Burroughs computers in class. Watching that video it's amazing to see how massive all these machines were. The print heads moving up and down instead of the paper is really weird to look at. I need a computer to process some punch card, here go you sir i have the perfect 2 tons machine for you.
On you Key Moments, 21:09 is labelled as P101 when it should be E101.
I have actually used one of these.
Worked at Pitkin St. in East Hartford, CT for a bit.
Where is the place wich Burroughs was stabilished in Sao Paulo?
Hi Victorarnault, I think that back in the 1970's, Burroughs had a core memory plant in Veleiros, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The burroughs was located in Veleiros plant....it still there with Unisys.
Glaucia Bortolozo Didn’t they have a major office in the Detroit area? I remember the old bookkeeping machine that was pretty much a piece of furniture. It had a horizontal pannel of lights and a large keyboard and used tapes to store information. My dad had one at his office for several years.
Burroughs was good by itself. Merging it with Univac may have been not so good. Boo Boo!😮😮
The Burroughs logo kind of looks like the Bitcoin logo.