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Accounting machines.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Burroughs Corporation records

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1880-1998

Burroughs Corporation records. Early office machine product and technical literature.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, series 34
Abstract

Collection contains manuals and brochures and technical publications for Burroughs' early office machines, including the adding machine, bookkeeping machine, various calculators, etc.

Dates: 1900-1966

Burroughs Corporation records. Product literature.

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 90, Series 74
Abstract

Collection contains manuals for a number of different Burroughs computer systems, including the B6700, the B7000/B6000/B5000 families, and large systems in general. They concentrate on the programming languages (ALGOL and COBOL), but also contain primers on CANDE, WFL, and the DMSII system.

Dates: 1910-1984; Majority of material found within (Bulk: 1961-1982)

James W. Birkenstock collection of IBM records and British Tabulating Machine Company histories

 Collection
Identifier: CBI 132
Abstract

Collection contains fragments of a document detailing the contractual interaction between IBM and the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) in the first half of the 20th century, a verbatim proceedings of a foreign accounting machines meeting at IBM in 1954 and two histories of the British Tabulating Machine Company.

Dates: circa 1950-1958