Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 05:36:20 CDT 2019


The Philadelphia area has more Burroughs hardware in the wild than most
places, you might just shake a few things free from ex employees living in
the area, if you're lucky.
Bill

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:50 PM Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system that can try to
> read the data off of it?
>
> > On Jun 13, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working
> on software for B1000. I think I was the sole user of the B1965 at their
> Lake Forest (Orange County) California office in '88-89. I was surrounded
> in my cubicle by all of the disk packs for that system. My favorite systems
> while at Burroughs was the B1000s.
> >
> > One of those type of disk packs is up on eBay right now and I am trying
> to decide whether to buy it. It is $60 plus another $40 for shipping. Is
> that too much? I almost never see Burroughs stuff, so, if I want Burroughs
> stuff, I should just get it, right?
> >
> > alan
> >
>
>


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