Burroughs
Corporation
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 1.
Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company
an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs. Where did the
company begin?
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Detroit, Michigan
- Chicago, Illinois
2. William Seward Burroughs I (January
28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor. Where was he
born?
- Rochester, New York
- New York City
- Boston
3. What was the machine William S.
Burroughs invented and had a patented first called?
- Adding machine
- Calculating machine
- Math machine
4. What relation was William S.
Burroughs, Beat Generation writer to the adding machine inventor?
5. The company moved to Detroit, Michigan
and changed their name Burroughs Adding Machine Company. What years was
this?
 6.
The Company developed a range of adding machines with different
capabilities and created the office accounting machine range that began
with the _________, which had a moving programmable carriage to maintain
ledgers. (Fill in the blank.)
- Sensimatic
- Tritontic
- ElectroData
7. What year was the Burroughs Adding
Machine Company renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into
computer products, initially for banking institutions?
8. Burroughs in the late 1960s, produced
the D2000, D4000 range - also known as the TC500 (Terminal Computer 500)
which had a golf ball printer and disk memory. These were popular as
branch terminals to the B5500/6500/6700 Systems, which sold well in the
Banking Sector. What was the disk memory size?
- 1K (80 bit)
- 10K (124 bit)
- 256MB (256 bit)
9. This move began with the purchase in
June 1956, of The ElectroData. They had built the Datatron 205 and was
working on the Datatron 220. The first major computer product that came
from this marriage was the B205 Tube computer. Where was the ElectroData
located?
- Pasadena, California
- Detroit, Michigan
- Glasgow, Scotland
10. Burroughs was one of the eight major
United States computer companies (with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR
Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC)
through most of the 1960s. IBM's share of the market at the time was so
much larger than all of the others. What was this group was often
sarcastically referred to as?
- IBM and the Seven Computer Companies
- IBM and the Seven Dwarfs
- IBM and the Wild Bunch
11. The Burroughs Corporation developed
three highly innovative architectures, based on the design philosophy of
“language directed design”. Their machine instruction sets favored
one or many high level programming languages. The architectures were considered "main-frame"
class machines. What was NOT one of the programming languages?
 12. Burroughs also made military
computers, such as the D825, in its Great Valley Laboratory. The D825
was, according to some scholars, the first true multiprocessor computer.
Where was the plant?
- Paoli, Pennsylvania
- Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
- St. Louis, Missouri
13.
Burroughs B205 hardware has appeared as props in many Hollywood TV and
movie productions from the 1960s onwards. A B205 console was often shown
in the TV series Batman as the Bat Computer; also as the
computer in what other sci-fi TV series?
- Lost in Space
- Star Trek
- Lost World
14. In September 1986, Burroughs
Corporation merged with another corporation to form Unisys. Who did they
merge with?
- Sperry Corporation
- Remington
- NCR Corporation
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