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On exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp...
Behind the profits are more efficient operations, specialized production, and a shift from space and defense to commercial work. Moreover, Burroughs' computer operations are now nearing break-even. The company's 1966 sales will probably reach $500 million, net earnings will be close to $28 million, more than...
The B 8500 is a dream world away from the machine that gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs' arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device. For years Burroughs built purely mechanical adding machines, typewriters, cash registers and check printers. Turning to...
Clerk to Chairman. Burroughs "sells more adding machines than ever before," according to Chairman Ray R. Eppert, 64, although it has long since dropped the manufacturing of typewriters and cash registers. The company has capitalized on its years of experience with such hand-operated machinery by applying it to the...
Corps of Integrity. The military academy expects its students to pick up most of their specialized military and technical knowledge in summer training and after they leave the Point-and 60% of them eventually do go on to civilian graduate schools at Army expense. Today, technical instruction at the Point...