Talk:Burroughs Corporation Accounting Machines

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Please be patient with me. I'm very new to this, although I have first-hand knowledge of Burroughs accounting machines. I worked for Burroughs as a field engineer from 1972 to 1987.

The "stand alone" machines mentioned in the article were part of a line of accounting machines called the "L-series http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.pickles1/burroughs/gallery/bpgltc.htm ." I apologize for the lack of formatting, but like I wrote, I'm very new at this.

The first generation of those machines included the L2000, L3000, L4000 and L5000. The L2000 and L3000 had 15 inch wide platens (the hard rubber device that roll paper was carried on for printing with a print ball similar to an IBM Selectric typewriter), while the L4000 and L5000 models had 26 inch wide platens. The L5000 series also used a magnetic strip read/write head which allowed it to store data on individual ledger cards. All these models used a mechanical keyboard and paper tape reader that was used to load programs into memory and/or onto the small hard disc drive. Separate paper tape punches and readers could be used to store and retrieve accounting data.

The second generation was called the L6000 series and had equivalent models of 6200, 6300, 6400 and 6500. This series used an electronic keyboard (using individual keyswitches) and an optical paper tape reader.

The third and final generation was the L9000 series with equivalent model numbers of 9200, 9300, 9400 and 9500. This series used a dot-matrix print head instead of a print ball.

Machines that had the capability of connecting to a modem and being used as a terminal as well as a stand alone machine were called TC (Terminal Computer.) The TC500 was an built on a horizontal platform much like an office desk. The TC700 model was built on a vertical platform and was used by tellers at banks and savings and loan institutions.

There were several other accounting machine families: B700/800/900 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.pickles1/burroughs/gallery/bpgb7b8.htm

B90/90 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.pickles1/burroughs/gallery/bpgb80.htm and http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.pickles1/burroughs/gallery/bpgb90.htm

B1700/1800/1900 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.pickles1/burroughs/gallery/bpgb17.htm

Perhaps it might serve to create pages for each series. I'm not sure.

I hope someone will assist in formatting this.

Thanks,

Bruno 02:34, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]