Jet Age" exhibit lighted sign with the Burroughs logo set in a cylinder. The whole sign is wrapped in curved frame. The larger oval contains four cylinders, each with a picture pertaining to airline services each with captions reading (left to right): "Jet Age Reservation Service : " "Jet Age Passenger Check In : " "Jet Age Meal Scheduling : " a...
Created:
1966
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
The E2100 direct accounting computer set up at a small desk on a round platform. The exhibit panel behind the desk states: Presenting. . . The Burroughs E 2100 director Accounting Computer." The upright panel to the left reads: E2100 Direct Accounting Computer : An Outstanding Performer : Both integrated and independent applications : Dollar for...
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
The full B200 series is set on a small stage. The overhead sign reads: "Burroughs B200 Series Compact Cobo[--] : Everything "Compact" except results." The exhibit is for the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) convention at the Hotel Jung in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Large exhibit space with light blue carpeting, blue and gold drapes, and white plastic chairs. Burroughs exhibition includes a podium for a speaker, a D825 component, and several wall panels. The panels promote the D84 Modular Data Processing System, the D825 Modular Data Processing System, and the B8500 Information Processing System. A free sta...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
The Burroughs Datavan semi tractor and trailer parked on the street in front of a brick building. Three men wearing suits stand by the trailer and a driver stands next to the door. The trailer is painted with the Burroughs logo and reads" Datavan : Bringing Automation to Business : Burroughs Corporation, Det[roit, Michigan]." The tractor is a Fo...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A framed display of an article in "Design News (November 1963) describing the memory disks floats and magnetic heads used in the Burroughs On-line Disk File. The display features the cover of the magazine issue, a channel 13 magnetic read/write head, a recording disk, and an excerpt with graphics, from the article by E. W. Schrader, West Coast E...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Automatic teller machine installed in Quincy National Bank's 1st Card "Automatic Teller Machine" drive up kiosk. Kiosk is built in the shape of a 1. Possibly located in Quincy, Illinois.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Burroughs' Solid-State Computer designed and built in 1956-57 for the U.S.A.F. ATLAS Ground Guidance System on display at the Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Created:
1966
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Four men in white lab coats hold up the writing harness for a section of the ATLAS computer. Sign on the top edge of the machine says: A2 Computer Right Hand.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
