Burroughs machines

[Nigel Williams]

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/