26 Sep
2007
26 Sep
'07
3:05 p.m.
At 01:29 AM 9/26/2007, M H Stein wrote:
The B80 (and later the B90) marked Burroughs'
transition away from
ledger cards to disks (either 8" floppies or 14" cartridges as used on
the B800) and was essentially the successor and replacement of the
L series single-user integrated accounting computers.
I'm ready to make a confession. Early in the youth of my classic career,
I once destructed a Burroughs of some kind. I still have two of the
14" bare platters and probably a bag of chips somewhere that I yanked.
I remember a big desk-sized cabinet, and that the platters were
covered with a flexible plastic cover, as if it were a record player.
What did I destroy? :-)
- John