The Burroughs E2190 and a check sorting machine on display. Lighted signs on the exhibit wall read (left to right): "A Systems Answer to Installment Loans : The Burroughs E2190 Direct Accounting Computer with Magnetic Data Ledger" and "See the Exciting New Humanized Checks : Checks more People will Buy : Designed to Give You Competitive Advantage."
Created:
1966
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Four men listen to information about the Burroughs E599 machine while one Burroughs salesman talks and a second (seated) operates the machine. This image provides a view of the keyboard. A sign in the background reads: "Stanomatic."
Created:
1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Display of Typing Sensimatic, desk, and chair on a small platform. A sign above the display reads: "1st Public Showing! The New Burroughs Typing Sensimatic Combines Advanced Typing with the Automation and Flexibility of Sensimatic Accounting." Director Accounting machines are on display to the right.
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Woman, with her back to the camera, is seated at a desk using a Sensimatic. On the wall behind her is a sign reading: "See the New Burroughs Sensimatic Accounting Machine : Never Such a Machine at ANY Price! : Machine with the 'mechanical brain'."
Created:
1950
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
An display of the Sensimatic-to-Punched-Tape equipment as well as the Burroughs E101 and G series printers. A sign above the display reads: "The Latest in ADP* Equipment : for the organization of Data in a Modern : *Automatic Data Processing System." The advertisement for the printers reads: " Burroughs Series "G" : Electronic High Speed Printer...
Created:
1956
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
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.
Photograph of an exhibit on Burroughs computer system installations nation-wide. Sign is titled " Burroughs Corporation Equipment and Systems Marketing Division Electronic Data Processing System Installations and On Order Status" and has a map of the United States. The exhibit also includes a table with scale models of the B260, B270, and B280 c...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A man and a woman stand just to the right of an exhibit panel titled "Pioneering in Precision.' The panel displays a Sensimatic machine, a Norden Bomb Sight, and an early manual adding machine. It also features a photograph and statement about William Seward Burroughs.
Created:
1952
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
View of the exhibition hall showing a side and entrance to the "Pipeline for Automation" display. It is a tube-like structure approximately seven-feet high. Two men in business suits stand just inside the round entryway in the foreground. Signage on the "pipeline's" side includes Burroughs logo and "Pipeline for Automation." A crowd of men and w...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Exterior of the "Pipeline for Automation" exhibition. On left side of photograph a Burroughs representative greets two men entering "pipeline" as a woman exits. On the right side of the photograph, another woman dressed in a "cowgirl" outfit stands next to a man in business suit at an information table. The Burroughs logo and "Pipeline for Autom...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Interior of the tunnel-like walkway within the "Pipeline for Automation" exhibit. Four men carrying Burroughs information portfolios are talking with a Burroughs representative.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
A convention presentation on a stage with two men employees, one gesturing and one listening. Complex graphics including maps, charts, large cardboard rulers, and cardboard cut-outs of men form the backdrop for the presentation. Agency Managers Convention, circa 1924
Created:
1924?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
