Burroughs Corporation
Parallel Names
- Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:
Auerbach Associates Market and Product Reports
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.
Burroughs Corporation records
The collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Materials include corporate records, photographs, films and video tapes, scrapbooks, papers of employees and records of companies acquired by Burroughs.
Burroughs Corporation records. Advertising samples.
Burroughs Corporation advertised from almost the very beginning of their business. The advertisements in the collection cover many decades and often reflect many of the societal attitudes of the time.
Burroughs Corporation records. Analysis of competitor products (competitive information
) and competitors’ product literature.
The collection contains "Competitor Information" sheets, compiled by staff at Burroughs, which include information about competitor adding machine and computer companies and their products. The collection also contains product literature files on Burroughs’ competitors.
Burroughs Corporation records. Annual meeting records.
Collection contains scripts and speeches from the stockholders' annual meetings of 1967-1983.
Burroughs Corporation records. Annual report photographs.
This collection contains images used in Burroughs' annual reports.
Burroughs Corporation records. Annual reports.
Collection contains the Burroughs annual reports dating from 1923 to 1985. From 1923-1952, the company was known as the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and from 1953 to 1985, as Burroughs Corporation. It merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to become Unisys Corporation. This collection includes a full run of annual reports for the dates listed, and also contains audio tapes of the annual reports from 1977-1985.
Burroughs Corporation records. Artifacts.
Collection consists of two categories of artifacts: those that were on the Coleman Display Table and Miscellaneous Artifacts. Burroughs had saved a few circuit boards from their computers of the 1950's and 1960's as display pieces that later ended up in the company archives. These are part of this collection along with a few code cards and some miscellaneous pieces.
Burroughs Corporation records. Biography files.
This collection is divided into two series based on subject content and physical size. The Biography Files series includes folders on many employees at Burroughs. While a great majority of the employees represented were executives, there are also a few folders of workers from the early days of the company, including William S. Burroughs. The Oversized Files series consists mostly of William S. Burroughs' patents.
Burroughs Corporation records. Black box photograph collection.
The collection contains early photographs of American Arithmometer Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Burroughs Corporation, Boyer Machine Company, and Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company employees and facilities. The images include production facilities, sales meetings, and employee activities including company-sponsored athletics. The collection contains extensive documentation of Burroughs Adding Machine Company's, later Burroughs Corporation's, headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Computer industry 33
- Office equipment and supplies industry 14
- Computers 13
- Photographs 9
- Computer input-output equipment 5
- Computer engineering 4
- Photography -- Negatives 4
- Accounting machines 3
- Bookkeeping machines 3
- Calculators 3
- Selling -- Accounting machines. 3
- Selling -- Bookkeeping machines. 3
- Selling -- Computers. 3
- Burroughs computers 2
- Computer industry -- History 2
- Computer industry -- United States 2
- Computer software industry 2
- Computer user groups 2
- Computers -- History 2
- Electronic data processing 2
- Military-industrial complex 2
- Office equipment and supplies -- Patents. 2
- Office equipment and supplies industry -- Pictorial works 2
- Sales personnel. 2
- Slides (Photography) 2
- APT (Computer program language) -- Standards 1
- Accounting machines -- Patents 1
- Banks and banking -- Automation 1
- Bookkeeping machines -- Patents 1
- Business records 1
- COBOL (Computer program language) -- Standards 1
- Charities -- Michigan -- Detroit 1
- Computer engineers -- Biography 1
- Computer industry -- Advertising 1
- Computer industry -- Europe 1
- Computer industry -- Periodicals 1
- Computer industry -- Societies, etc. 1
- Computer printers 1
- Computer software -- History 1
- Computer storage devices 1
- Computer terminals 1
- Computers -- Law and legislation 1
- Computers -- Periodicals 1
- Computers -- Research 1
- Computers -- United States 1
- Computers -- United States -- History -- Sources. 1
- Corporate image 1
- Cryptography 1
- Defense industries 1
- EDVAC (Computer) 1
- ENIAC (Computer) 1
- Electric engineering -- Societies, etc. 1
- Electric engineers -- Biography 1
- Electronic digital computers 1
- Executives 1
- FORTRAN (Computer program language) -- Standards. 1
- Human-computer interaction. 1
- Industries -- Michigan -- Detroit. 1
- Integrated circuits 1
- Interactive computer systems. 1
- Lantern slides 1
- Logos (Symbols) 1
- Logotypes (Printing) 1
- Magnetic tapes 1
- Mechanical engineers -- Biography 1
- Microfilm readers 1
- Microphotography 1
- Motion pictures 1
- New products. 1
- Office equipment and supplies -- Research. 1
- Office equipment and supplies industry -- Advertising. 1
- Office equipment and supplies industry -- Periodicals. 1
- Optical character recognition devices. 1
- Outer space -- Exploration -- Data processing. 1
- Patent suits -- United States 1
- Product management. 1
- Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Standards. 1
- Punched card systems. 1
- SAGE (Air Defense System) -- History. 1
- Selling -- Calculators. 1
- Sewing machines -- Patents. 1
- Sperry computers. 1
- Stockholders 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- System design -- Data processing. 1
- Systems engineering. 1
- Trade shows -- Designs and plans. 1
- Trademarks. 1
- Typewriters -- Patents. 1
- Univac computer 1
- User interfaces (Computer systems) 1
- Video recordings 1 + ∧ less
