Four job performance and encouragement posters in a proof sheet. Each poster is represented multiple times. Posters read (left to right): "When in doubt . . Ask! Zero Defects. Its up to you" : "ZD its up to you" : "Careless Assembly . . There is no little mistake. Zero Defects. Its up to you" : and "Pride in Performance is a Habit. Zero Defects....
Created:
1964?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Six Burroughs ElectroData Division executives hold up the "Zero Defects. Its Up to You" banner in front of them. They are standing in front of a map of the globe and a smaller sign that reads: "Burroughs Around the World."
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Two lines comprised of fifteen women and two men pose with the "Zero Defects" award banner. The banner reads: "Zero Defects Award for Most Improvement During the Past Month." The assembly team is not identified
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A man leading a tour group of four women at the City of Hope cancer treatment facility. They are looking at an x-ray machine used for diagnosis. The tour is part of ElectroData's A.I.D. fundraising campaign. The x-ray machine is manufactured by Picker Corp.
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Dan Spinner describes the operation of a Xerox copier - begins with him already talking (about Xerox 3600 ?), then does Xerox 4000, IBM 6800 copier and Xerox 1000.Subjects: Xerox 3600/Xerox 4000/Xerox 1000/IBM 6800/Spinner, Dan. Quizes included.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Contributor:
Spinner, Dan
Created:
1976
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Joint venture Italy - SITI WORLDTECH. L to R: Carl J. Knorr, Senior VP CD Technology Services; Richard N. Gardner, US Ambassador to Italy; James F. Burke, President CD WORLDTECH; Mario M. Fontini, Managing Director, SITI WORLDTECH.
Created:
1979-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
View of the exhibit center from the entrance. Two duplex billing machines on desks can be seen on the left and four other electric Adding machines and calculators are on display along the wall on the right. A typewriter and two microfilm machines can be seen in the background. Companion image to ID no. 320.
Created:
1952
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
View from the back of the 6th floor exhibit center lobby. A man in the background is talking on the phone at a small desk. The backs of two duplex billing machines on desks can be seen in right middle ground of the image. Companion image to ID no. 321.
Created:
1952
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
This tape was customer supplied, and shows how the cashiering department at this company utilizes Burroughs equipment, including seven S3000 machines, a B1900, and an EA2300.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1983-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A man leans against the counter and watches as a woman prepares a Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Commission invoice using what appears to be a Burroughs Duplex Subtractor Bookkeeping Machine.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A woman operating what appears to be a Burroughs class 7 adding and listing machine in an unidentified office. Three men are standing in the background. One has hand resting on another accounting machine.
Created:
1914
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Twenty four men and three women pose on the sidewalk in front of the Burroughs Wichita, Kansas branch location. A police man stands at the left end of the back row. C. A. Baker, General Service Manager stands third from the right in the back row.
Created:
1918
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
1604-A computer being unloaded at Lydda Airport from special plane that brought it directly from U.S. Lydda Airport's forklift transfers the computer parts to trucks waiting along the runway
Created:
1963-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Presentation stressing advantages of moving up to V series noting compatibility with earlier lines. Similar to BP185 and AP168. Amazing usage of fog and animation in the last few minutes.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Contributor:
Balduf, Carl
Created:
1986-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
An engineer tests a memory package in the Visible Record Computer. The circuit boards and "logic pods" are partially removed to make them visible in the photograph.
Created:
1959
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Woman in a Burroughs lab coat working with thin-film vacuum deposition apparatus. The graph paper printer recording millivolts was manufactured by Speedomax.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Man adjusting a plate inside the thin film memory vacuum deposition system chamber. Vacuum chamber manufactured by Crosley, serial number 5473. The Machinery in the background is a vacuum coating unit, manufactured by Consolidated Vacuum Corporation (CVC).
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
The Utilized Digital Electronic Computer (UDEC) with exterior panels removed. A technician at the back is testing the memory system, and the technicians at the left and right are entering program functions. The UDEC is a plus board computer system, similar to the ENIAC, developed in the late 1940s.
Created:
1953
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Wm. Torpey, Acting Director, Office of ADP Services, joins Messrs. Heindel & Kadow in inspection of cables and sub-flooring which had been covered with mud and water.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
L to R: Mr. Heindel, Robert Thompson, CDC engineer, and Mr. Kadow, Asst. Postmaster General, Management Information Systems Dept., examine condition of 260,000 random character disk file.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Describes the experience of several Spanish businesses using Burroughs technology. Audio is in Spanish and the English subtitles are not very reliable.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1980s
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Begins with French interviews about Burroughs customers, then switches to English for most of the program. Explains Burroughs support in Data Processing specifically in the context of several businesses from the UK.
Creator:
Burroughs Corporation
Created:
1985
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
