Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

[Alan Perry]

The large A Series work was done in Paoli, King of Prussia, Trediffryn and probably other cities around Valley Forge that I don’t recall.

The B1000 work was done in Goleta (Santa Barbara), CA plus mfg in Liege, Belgium. I was responsible for a central piece of system software (GEMCOS), so I knew where the customers were based on bug reports (a large portion of the bugs were from the UK, Ford in Dagenham and the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) in Bristol).

At the most recent VCF PNW, someone who checked out my exhibit told me that there was a B1000, probably in Surplus at University of Washington, but checking with them, they don’t believe they have it.

alan

> On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:36 AM, Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Philadelphia area has more Burroughs hardware in the wild than most places, you might just shake a few things free from ex employees living in the area, if you're lucky.
> Bill
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>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:50 PM Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system that can try to read the data off of it?
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>> > On Jun 13, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> > When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working on software for B1000. I think I was the sole user of the B1965 at their Lake Forest (Orange County) California office in '88-89. I was surrounded in my cubicle by all of the disk packs for that system. My favorite systems while at Burroughs was the B1000s.
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>> > One of those type of disk packs is up on eBay right now and I am trying to decide whether to buy it. It is $60 plus another $40 for shipping. Is that too much? I almost never see Burroughs stuff, so, if I want Burroughs stuff, I should just get it, right?
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>> > alan
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