A History of Burroughs Corporation Computers & Machines to 1956 , UDEC, E101, UNISYS Educational
050920 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are. Good quality Burroughs promotional film showing early adding machines, calculators, accounting & printing machines and brief but very rare footage of early Burroughs digital computers the UDEC II and E 101. The UDEC (“Unitized Digital Electronic Computer”) was an enhanced version of the 1951 “Burroughs Laboratory Computer” built in Philadelphia. -- This film stops around 1956, the year that Burroughs acquired ElectroData Corporation of Pasadena, California. The acquisition of ElectroData greatly expanded Burroughs potential growth into the digital computer marketplace. (Also, please see our other videos for Burroughs 1960’s time period.)
A well-designed film with lots of footage of Burroughs assembly plants with men and women performing complex technical assembly tasks on various machines.
Data Processing and Digital Computer discussion starts at about time index 18:39. A Topic Index has been provided to help navigate to whatever you find interesting. Run time 27 minutes, with brief Photo Gallery at end. Provided for educational value and historical commentary, Computer History Archives Project.
Burroughs, founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company, acquired Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form UNISYS Corporation.
TOPIC INDEX
00:45
Burroughs Plants in various locations: - - -
Detroit, Michigan; Plymouth, Michigan; Los Angeles; Rochester, NY;
Plainfield, New Jersey; Brooklyn, NY; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Park Ridge, New Jersey; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Pantin, France; Gennevilliers, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nottingham, England;
Strathleven, Scotland; Dallas, Texas; Dearborn, Michigan; Paris, France
01:54
Burroughs male and female employees demonstrating a variety of technical work skills;
Building Adding Machines, Electronic Components, Television Tubes,
Mechanical Accounting Machines, Large Computing Machine,
Discussion of mass-production, assembly line manufacturing, shipping;
Growth of Burroughs Company
03:41
Re-enactment of William S. Burroughs’s workshop;
World’s first practical adding machine, 1886
05:00
Women using adding machines; 10-Key machine, machine being produced by workers
Printing Bookkeeping Machine, Typewriter Accounting Machines
08:06
Time track of historic events, 1913 Income Tax Law increases demand for accounting
08:27
Impact of World War I on labor force;1930’sgovernment accounting regulation increases; Social security laws, hourly wage law, income tax withholding; Office Machines, Check Protector, Acquisitions and Growth, bank checks
12:10
Ticketing Machine: Burroughs Micro-Twin, Microfilming Machine
13:24
Electronics; laboratory research; analysis, measurement, testing
Vacuum Tube production, Magnetic Cores, pluggable vacuum tube units, Integrating mechanical, electromechanical and electronic machines
16:12
Sensotronic machine; Bank statement posting
Sensimatic, Tape-Punch machine (Punched Tape)
Character Recognition Machines, Tabulating Punch Cards,
18:39
Data Processing; fluorescent coding; bank check processing;
Bankomatic; Punched Paper Tape Reels
20:28
Unitized Digital Electronic Computer II (UDEC II) * * * *
Burroughs E 101 Computer * * * *
G 101 Accounting, Card Processing, Printing
22:38
Military Applications; navigational systems; targeting systems;
RADAR defense network “SAGE” (fighter plane images)
Summary topics; Executives meeting; design teams; service; sales;
training; product maintenance and repair
27:00
Copyright Unisys; Photo Gallery
27:50
End
Acknowledgements & Resources
Film courtesy of Unisys Corporation
VIPClubMN.org, (Retirees, former employees, etc. of Unisys, and their Twin Cities predecessor companies) http://www.VIPClubMN.org
"Survey of Electronic Digital Computing Systems," 1961, Weik, Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Prov. Ground, Courtesy of Ed Thelen;
http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61.html
Computer History Museum, Mountainview, CA
http://www.computerhistory.org
See Related Burroughs Computer Videos:
1963 Burroughs Computer History, Datatron, ElectroData, B5000, B270 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOpO-040W8
1964 Burroughs Computer History (B5000, B280, BUIC D825; Unisys, Mainframe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQEgm3FNxo
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