1 week ago - The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.

4 hours ago - The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer adding machine Company in St.The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer adding machine Company in St. ...

Burroughs created many highly regarded computer systems in the 1960s and 1970s and eventually merged with the makers of the Univac computers (Sperry Rand) to form Unisys.

September 20, 2026 - 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.

Operations resumed almost immediately, and for about the next fifty years, Burroughs grew into the biggest adding machine company in the United States. It introduced many different products, including many variations of the basic adding machine, typewriters, check protectors, ticketeers, and finally, computers.

The Burroughs Corporation was a big American company that made business machines. It started in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company. The founder was William Seward Burroughs I. In 1986, Burroughs joined with Sperry UNIVAC to create a new ...

1 week ago - Each division's product line grew ... a computer's instruction set for particular programming languages. "Burroughs Large Systems" referred to all of these large-system product lines together, in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems (B2000, B3000, and B4000) or the flexible-architecture Small Systems (B1000). Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating company in computing ...

Burroughs Corporation manufactures business equipment and computers. It began with manufacturing mechanical adding machines, and later on it began to manufacture programmable ledgers, and then, computers.

The company became the largest manufacturer of adding machines globally. In the 1950s and 1960s, it expanded into manufacturing computer systems for business and office use, and was renamed Burroughs Corporation in 1953.

This site is dedicated to the memory ... information to collectors, both dedicated and casual, about the history of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company and it's products....

February 10, 2025 - To reflect its shift from adding machines to these other emerging fields, the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. was rebranded as simply the Burroughs Corp., in 1953. Three years later, the company made a major step into the world of electronics by acquiring the ElectroData Corp., leading to the creation of the influential B5000 series of computers.

January 5, 2005 - All of them were born at the Pasadena Plant, originally known as Burroughs Electrodata Division (EDD), which was originally the Electrodata Corporation, bought by Burroughs in the early 1950s to get them out of adding machines and into computers.

Burroughs Corporation inventors devoted attention to electronic computers, but did not attempt to design electronic calculators. In 1963 it gave many of the models and machines from its Patent Department collection to the Smithsonian.

The Burroughs Corporation was one of the largest adding machine and electronic computer manufacturers in the United States. It began as the American Arithmometer Company in 1886, founded in St.

Contains private consulting reports commissioned by government agencies and businesses on subjects including computer systems, peripherals, robots, software, computer input-output equipment, storage devices, terminals, magnetic tapes, optical character recognition devices, printers, punched card systems, and computer markets. Access to reports under twenty years old is completely restricted. Additional restrictions may apply for reports commissioned by companies. ... The collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

In highlighting the new corporate identity program for stockholders attending the company's annual meeting here today, Burroughs Chairman W. Michael Blumenthal said, "we are one of the world's largest, most successful computer companies, with 65,000 ...

"Burroughs and Sperry rename their merged company "Unisys". Unisys will be the new name of the commercial computer and defense electronics giant formed by the recent merger of Burroughs and Sperry, and the merger is "ahead of schedule against ...

July 27, 2020 - In 1953, to reflect its increasingly diverse product and service offerings, the company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation, and was recognized as a single outlet for a variety of business management products. One of the most significant acquisitions came in 1956, when Burroughs acquired ElectroData Corporation of Pasadena, California. This allowed Burroughs to further expand into the electronic computing market and led to the development of the B5000 series in 1961, which was celebrated as a groundbreaking scientific and business computer.

Burroughs Ticketeer ticketing systems enter pilot installations at railroads. P 400 multiple total adding machine released. ... The Company’s name is changed from the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to the Burroughs Corporation.

In 1954 Burroughs introduced the E 101, a desk-size electronic digital computer for scientific, engineering and business applications. Later, Series E systems, such as the E 2000, and counterpart Series F systems, became widely accepted and were Burroughs leading products for accounting applications in business, industry and banking well into the 1960s. In parallel with Burroughs development of electronic products for accounting applications, the Company expanded its capability for development of larger, multipurpose computer systems.