16 Sep
2005
16 Sep
'05
10:16 p.m.
Up at Apex, what did I see, part 2:
http://wps.com/temp/B-tape.jpg
Not too spectacular, just some old reel tapes in (luckily)
weather-proof containers. BURROUGHS. 3200 fci, so not too ancient.
Stuff like this (minor) scattered all through the place.
17 Sep
17 Sep
1:58 a.m.
Up at Apex, what did I see, part 2:
http://wps.com/temp/B-tape.jpg
Not too spectacular, just some old reel tapes in (luckily)
weather-proof containers. BURROUGHS. 3200 fci, so not too ancient.
All Burroughs is worth saving, simply because no one saves it.
For such a big player in the computer industry during the golden age, so
few people know anything about the company or their machines.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
19 Sep
19 Sep
1:48 p.m.
>>>> "William" == William
Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
> Up at Apex, what did I see, part 2:
>
> http://wps.com/temp/B-tape.jpg
>
> Not too spectacular, just some old reel tapes in (luckily)
> weather-proof containers. BURROUGHS. 3200 fci, so not too ancient.
William> All Burroughs is worth saving, simply because no one saves
William> it.
True, if indeed that has Burroughs stuff on it. It could just be a
boring data tape with the Burroughs name on it. I think all the bing
companies resold magtape with their company name attached to it.
William> For such a big player in the computer industry during the
William> golden age, so few people know anything about the company or
William> their machines.
Indeed. It would be neat to get a hold of the 6700 OS. The
technology there is interesting and unusual.
Someday I hope to recover my copy of Algol for the PDP-11, which was
derived from Burroughs Algol. That software actually is readily
available in the DECUS collection, except that the sources were not
provided. I have them somewhere; the problem is to find the tape...
paul
8:35 p.m.
On 9/19/2005, Paul Koning wrote:
Indeed. It would be neat to get a hold of the 6700 OS.
The
technology there is interesting and unusual.
I wonder if there is still some BSP code wandering around in some government lab archive.
I recall from when I was at CDC that the BSP was considered to be a potential competitor
to the Star, if for no other reason than it had a separate scalar execution unit.
Cheers,
Chuck
20 Sep
20 Sep
1:10 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
Oh I'm quite sure they are just BURROUGHS reels, with crap old
data on them. THere was a hand-scrawled label, some sort of data
saves or something. They most definitely were not Burroughs
factory distribution tapes. You can see the labels in the photo.
> Up at
Apex, what did I see, part 2:
>
> http://wps.com/temp/B-tape.jpg
>
> Not too spectacular, just some old reel tapes in (luckily)
> weather-proof containers. BURROUGHS. 3200 fci, so not too ancient.
William> All Burroughs is worth saving, simply because no one saves
William> it.
True, if indeed that has Burroughs stuff on it. It could just be a
boring data tape with the Burroughs name on it. I think all the bing
companies resold magtape with their company name attached to it.
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