6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
9:44 a.m.
A Burroughs Redactor II is available in the Maryland area. Please see
message below and reply to original sender.
Reply-to: NaTasha Morgan-Lipscomb <tashatravels at msn.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:26:55 -0500
From: NaTasha Morgan-Lipscomb <tashatravels at msn.com>
To: vcf at vintage.org
Subject: Burroughs Redactor II
Good Afternoon,
Re: Burroughs Redactor II
I have the above referenced computer that we found in our home when we
purchased it. We would like to have it appraised or sold but don't know
where to start. Would you know of any resource that could possibly assist
us in an appraisal or sale?
Thank You in advance
NaTasha & Christian Lipscomb 443.766.9281 cell, 410.701.7010 work
6 Feb
6 Feb
12:50 p.m.
From: NaTasha Morgan-Lipscomb <tashatravels at
msn.com>
To: vcf at vintage.org
Subject: Burroughs Redactor II
Re: Burroughs Redactor II
On IRC we went looking for pictures of this word processing system, we
found this:
http://i.imgur.com/ZWOl9cW.jpg
So it appears it might be otherwise known as the Burroughs System 240
(and later the System 250 - for the Redactor III), the full title:
Burroughs R II System 240 and Burroughs R III System 250.
"...also available with triple diskette transports."
If someone finds better pictures please point the way.
1:50 p.m.
http://i.imgur.com/ZWOl9cW.jpg
C: wow they used to be based in Yip-Yip-Yaphank. Never knew it. Sperry/Unisys was in
Central Islip or something. That I knew.
6:51 p.m.
Hazeltine was out on Long Island too? I never bought their military
stuff, but I did use some of their terminals.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/ZWOl9cW.jpg
C: wow they used to be based in Yip-Yip-Yaphank. Never knew it. Sperry/Unisys was in
Central Islip or something. That I knew.
8:15 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com
Sent: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:50:55 -0800 (PST)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Burroughs Redactor II (fwd)
http://i.imgur.com/ZWOl9cW.jpg
C: wow they used to be based in Yip-Yip-Yaphank. Never knew it.
Sperry/Unisys was in Central Islip or something. That I knew.
I used to do field service on these R-II's in the early 80's.
This system was originally designed and built by the Redactron
corporation, of Yank-Pank. It originally used dual high-speed
digital cassette tapes (using a metalized leader).
Shortly after, Burroughs purchased Redactron, and then they made
the move to floppy disks. The social security facility in Baltimore
had quite a few of them.
It utilized a Qume daisy-wheel printer.
The thing I liked the most about this system, was that the CRT was
vertically oriented; you could see an entire legal-sized page
without having to scroll up/down. The later R-III had a square
CRT, and was not as convenient to use IMHO.
That unit in Maryland was VERY likely sold by the GrayMar Co.,
of Baltimore. We were the Burroughs Word Processing (nee Redactron)
dealer there.
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