I joined Burroughs Machines Ltd at the High View Drive, Chatham branch in 1967 as a field engineer. Worked on series P and series J adding machines, series C calculators, series F accounting machines and series L visible record terminals/computers with a 20 cps golf-ball printer. Moved to Burroughs' Milton Keynes Tech Resource Centre in 1984 where I worked on the B20 series early desk computers and various printers linked to early electronics devices. Simply loved my time with Burroughs, as did many. As GHO commented below, it was a great company but declined as Unisys in my view, when many of the older hands were made redundant in the name of progress and efficiency (me included). John A.
Worked for Burroughs Corporation as a Customer Service Representative 84-86, then for Unisys 87-88. Miss the premerger company, was a big happy family. Remember when I interviewed I only knew them for adding machines which I had seen in second-hand stores. Of course, by the mid-'80s they were into the midsized computer mainframe market, 90% in the banking industry.
I used the Burroughs ledger cards with the magnetic strip, and other Burroughs machines at a time when my employer was introducing a brand new system(IBM). What a nightmare! The machines were at the end of their lives and held together with chewing gum and paper clips. Every day there was a new problem to solve. What a shame I didn't get overtime pay!
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I joined Burroughs Machines Ltd at the High View Drive, Chatham branch in 1967 as a field engineer. Worked on series P and series J adding machines, series C calculators, series F accounting machines and series L visible record terminals/computers with a 20 cps golf-ball printer. Moved to Burroughs' Milton Keynes Tech Resource Centre in 1984 where I worked on the B20 series early desk computers and various printers linked to early electronics devices. Simply loved my time with Burroughs, as did many. As GHO commented below, it was a great company but declined as Unisys in my view, when many of the older hands were made redundant in the name of progress and efficiency (me included). John A.
Worked for Burroughs Corporation as a Customer Service Representative 84-86, then for Unisys 87-88. Miss the premerger company, was a big happy family. Remember when I interviewed I only knew them for adding machines which I had seen in second-hand stores. Of course, by the mid-'80s they were into the midsized computer mainframe market, 90% in the banking industry.
In the mid sixties my mother worked as a programmer for the ledging machines in Amsterdam. Not real programming but setting the tabs for the columns
I used the Burroughs ledger cards with the magnetic strip, and other Burroughs machines at a time when my employer was introducing a brand new system(IBM). What a nightmare! The machines were at the end of their lives and held together with chewing gum and paper clips. Every day there was a new problem to solve. What a shame I didn't get overtime pay!
Love it
I have the exact same machine at 10:55. I have no idea when it was built there isn't much online about that model
How were they pulling off character recognition on that thing?
Magnetic reading on magnetic character - not for "general" printed document.
Any idea when that film was originally released?
You know I don't.
I would guess about 1954 or 55.
Impressive.... but no B-205?
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