19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
1:58 p.m.
Received the following from my web site:
"...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was one of the first office based
with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer, any interest ..."
Contacted the guy, he said he was from Oxfordshire/Berkshire border in
England (I presume). He is looking to sell for at least scrap value.
Contact me if you're interested and I will forward your info to the guy,
his name is Brian..
NOTE: I helped rescue a similar unit from a Jewelry store a few years ago,
they're heavy suckers.
Bill
Reach me here: vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm
19 Feb
19 Feb
2:43 p.m.
Something tells me it won't fit in my apartment in Belgium :( I'll keep an
ear out. I can't seem to find any pictures of these machines, and there is
only one doc on bitsavers.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:58 PM, B Degnan <billdeg at buzz1.com> wrote:
Received the following from my web site:
"...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was one of the first office based
with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer, any interest ..."
Contacted the guy, he said he was from Oxfordshire/Berkshire border in
England (I presume). He is looking to sell for at least scrap value.
Contact me if you're interested and I will forward your info to the guy,
his name is Brian..
NOTE: I helped rescue a similar unit from a Jewelry store a few years ago,
they're heavy suckers.
Bill
Reach me here: vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686
20 Feb
20 Feb
2:52 a.m.
There are pictures and info out there, but they
came in various quite different configurations; if
it's the 4.5 or 9MB disk drive and the line
printer this could indeed be a little large for
your apartment.
Many fond memories of programming these babies (in
COBOL!)
m
http://www.picklesnet.com/burroughs/images/fullsize/burr0271.jpg
http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/pictures/burroughs_B80.jpg
http://www.picklesnet.com/burroughs/images/fullsize/burr0228.jpg
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.unisys/W70XaOs2qF4
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Katz" <jon at jonworld.com>
To: <billdeg at buzz1.com>; "General Discussion:
On-Topic Posts" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Burroughs B 80 in England, Available
Something tells me it won't fit in my apartment
in Belgium :( I'll keep an
ear out. I can't seem to find any pictures of
these machines, and there is
only one doc on bitsavers.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:58 PM, B Degnan
<billdeg at buzz1.com> wrote:
Received the following from my web site:
"...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was one
of the first office based
with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer,
any interest ..."
Contacted the guy, he said he was from
Oxfordshire/Berkshire border in
England (I presume). He is looking to sell for
at least scrap value.
Contact me if you're interested and I will
forward your info to the guy,
his name is Brian..
NOTE: I helped rescue a similar unit from a
Jewelry store a few years ago,
they're heavy suckers.
Bill
Reach me here: vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686 
19 Feb
19 Feb
2:53 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:58:53PM -0500, B Degnan wrote:
"...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was one
of the first office based
with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer, any interest ..."
Nice looking little machine.
Speaking of Burroughs ... did any B5500s survive to the present day?
mcl
3:03 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:58:53PM -0500, B Degnan
wrote:
> "...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was one of the first office based
> with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer, any interest ..."
Bill... I have some 1970s Burroughs' private-numbered TTL. You need parts?
-ethan
6:24 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
From: Mark Linimon
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:53 AM
Speaking of Burroughs ... did any B5500s survive to
the present day?
You are [REDACTED] and I claim my ?5.
Rich
(We get this question from a certain source every few months.)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
2:51 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
From: Mark Linimon
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 3:42 AM
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:24:55PM +0000, Rich
Alderson wrote:
> You are [REDACTED] and I claim my ?5.
sorry, have only been on the list for 3-4 months.
No, my fault. The "we" in "We get this question" is the staff at
Living Computer Museum.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
19 Feb
19 Feb
7:55 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
Speaking of Burroughs ... did any B5500s survive to
the present day?
There was a press release in 1978 about one going to The Smithsonian:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/retro-b5500/GydsDkDEwdQ/Jkggo_cjujAJ
We haven't managed to confirm whether it has survived.
I also wonder whether the three x B5500 that went to Czechoslovakia
survived (another went to Moscow). After the fall of the eastern bloc
it was found that a lot of older technology had survived quite well in
former eastern bloc countries. I made several enquiries with people
who grew up in Czech and pinged the technology museum and some
academics but all drew a blank.
The B5500 emulator is quite stable now.
http://code.google.com/p/retro-b5500/
On Burroughs matters, Paul Kimpel has completed an outstanding
emulation for the ElectroData/Burroughs B205.
Tom Sawyer's blog has links to the B205 emulator and many detailed
postings about this machine:
http://datatron.blogspot.com.au/
20 Feb
20 Feb
1:27 p.m.
New subject: Burroughs machines
On 2/19/15 11:53 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:58:53PM -0500, B Degnan
wrote:
FWIW I am still looking for a B1965 ...
alan
"...I have a 1970s Burroughs B 80 which was
one of the first office based
with stand alone multi disc cabinet & printer, any interest ..."
Nice
looking little machine.
Speaking of Burroughs ... did any B5500s survive to the present day?
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