Exhibition titled "Computation The Heart of the Weapon." The back wall bears sign which reads: "Burroughs Corporation [--] Foremost Name in Computation" and on the left " U.S.A.F. ATLAS Ballistic Missile Computation" and on the right "U.S.A.F. SAGE Coordinate Data Processing System." At the center is a smaller round sign bearing Burroughs logo a...
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
An exhibition titled "Burroughs Guidance Computer: The "KEY" to the "Keyhole in the Sky." A cut-away oval in the center of the display shows the earth below, with a Mercury module floating in space above the earth and a table-top model of an unidentified computer installation.
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Large exhibit space over which the banner reads: "Burroughs Corporation : The Foremost Name in Computation : Geared to Perform the Complete Cycle of Defense Work." A smaller sign in the background reads: "Burroughs occupies a strategic position in the advanced field of Electronic Computers : Digital and Analog : Instrumentation, Aircraft and Nav...
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Exhibition including a display on Airborne Long Range Input (ALRI) system. Seating area and unidentified scale model visible in the right middle ground.
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
This portion of a larger exhibition features "Nixie Type 6844" vacuum tubes. A sign at top of the machine shows a vacuum tube and an arrow which reads: "Beam Switching Tube." A sign on the wall behind the display reads: "[fore]most Name . . " and "[el]ectronic co[mpo]nent[s] . . ."
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Exhibition promoting the Burroughs' On-Line system. Most of the left panel is readable: "Some institutions that have already selected the Burroughs On-Line Teller System." Two Adding machines and calculators and two teller machines are part of the display. The convention is at the Statler Hilton Hotel.
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
An exhibition titled "Naval Engineering Our First Line of Defense." Below the sign is a display of Radar. Antennas, described as the "High-altitude, all-weather Bomb Direction System." To the left is a display of the "Mirror Deck Landing System", and to the right is the" Weapons Control" display. Companion image to ID no. 403 and no. 472.
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
The Burroughs B101 displayed on a stage. Behind the machine is a sign which reads: "The Burroughs B101 : The World's Fastest Electronic Sorter-Reader." To the left is a wall sized graphic showing the B101 as part of a computer installation.
Created:
1959
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.
Exhibition promoting the Burroughs B8500. A large poster reads: "B8500 Information Processing System : The B8500 is a dynamically modular, very large scale, information processing system in which the latest technological advances in monolithic integrated circuitry and thin film memory are used to achieve extremely fast and versatile computing po...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Exhibition promoting the D825. A cabinet and terminal are on display in the center. A large poster reads: "D825 Modular Data Processing System : Burroughs D825, the first totally modular data processing system, has been in service since 1962--demonstrating and proving the benefits of functional modularity : Multiprocessing, fail-soft reliability...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
This portion of a larger exhibit promotes the D84 Modular Data Processing System. Several modular units are stacked on a table in front of a poster and photograph of a rocket launch. The poster reads: " D84 Modular Data Processing System : Burroughs new D84 military computer combines the advantages of a compact, rugged, monolithic integrated cir...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
In the foreground is the ElectroData Datafile computer with a sign overhead reading: "Datafile electronic filing combines high-volume memory capacity and high-speed internal handling." A display of the Datatron 220 and the E101 can be seen in the middle ground. An exhibition space for General Binding Corp. can be seen in the left background.
Created:
1957
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Exhibit of several Burroughs Business Machines, Ltd. products. Burroughs machines on display include: E2100, F4000, B200, and B5000. Focus of display is round dais with the E2100 flanked by two female models wearing "Miss Burroughs" sashes.
Created:
1960?
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 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.