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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: Burroughs was a company started in the 19th century, and was… and was quite pre-eminent in… in all… in the banking industry, almost everybody used… used equipment from Burroughs to… to do its accounting, and… and in the early days of computing, Burroughs acquired the Electrodata Corporation, in Pasadena, and they… they were one of the many companies putting out computer. And as… as I say, not only that, they had very innovative computers, and… and I liked the spirit of the… of all the employees working… working there as well. The… in the… later on, they were... they were acquired by Sperry Rand, this was in the 70s, I think, and became Unisys, combined with Sperry Rand. So… so half of… half of Unisys was… was former Burroughs Corporation, and the half of it was the Sperry, which… the Rand… Remington Rand… the people who… who had built the UNIVAC computer. The… that happened after I… after I was no longer in Pasadena. And… and they continued to… to have banks as their primary customer base, but then, in more recent years, the… you know, other… other companies survived, and there were many, many changes in the computer industry, to that time. So Burroughs was, you know, Edsger Dijkstra was also a consultant to Burroughs during the 60s, and he would come out to Pasadena, visit periodically, they… and it was… and it was a great company to work for in those days, I think.
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories.
Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: During the summer, between… between Case in Cleveland and Caltech in Pasadena, I had a summer job of writing... writing compilers, this algebraic… this... this software that converts algebraic language into machine language. I had a job writing a compiler for Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs was headquartered in Pasadena – I mean the Burroughs Division that… that was dealing with software was headquartered in Pasadena – and Case had recently installed a Burroughs computer that I liked very much, during my senior year. Some people from Thompson Ramo Wooldridge approached me and said, ‘Don, we understand that you can write compilers. We're going to put in a proposal to Burroughs to write a compiler for their machine ( the… the Burroughs 205) for a language called ALGOL’, which was just… just being invented at that time – the ALGOrithmic Language an international standard, that was supposed to replace FORTRAN, the most popular language at the time. And so Thompson Ramo Wooldridge was… made a proposal to Burroughs for I believe it was $70,000, to create a ALGOL compiler for the Burroughs 205. The people who made this proposal really, though, were clueless about how to write compilers, so they hired me, a… a Case Senior, to… to do the job, because they had heard that I knew how to do it. I had done this RUNCIBLE and a… and a couple of versions of… of other software at Case. So spring of my Senior year, they… they are showing me… they're… they’re showing me about this… this machine that Burroughs had, and I… and I started playing around with the.. with the computer, and I had learned… got interested in the… in the project, but Burroughs turned them down; they didn't give them the contract.
So after Burroughs said, no, they weren't going to do it with Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, well I…I said, well, wait a minute, I've, maybe I'll write to Burroughs on my own, and I sent them a letter and said, I'll, you know, for $5000 I can write you an ALGOL compiler. Now $5000 was a huge amount of money in 1959… in 1960. I… I mean a… a college professor was making $8000 a year or something like this. So I… I thought $5000 was… was an incredibly rich thing, you know, to… to do. I said to Burroughs… no, I… except that… I can do it in the summer, except I won't have time to… to implement all of this ALGOL, I'll… I’ll be able to do everything except procedures. I'll be able to, you know… which is actually the hardest thing to do in a compiler… which is of subroutines, the ability to extend the language. Well, they wrote back saying you… we can't have ALGOL without procedures, you've got to put procedures in too. And so I thought about it and said… and figured out, oh yeah… ‘Okay, I see how I can do it, but you'll… you’ll have to pay me $5500, instead of $5000’. So they said, ‘Okay’.
So I spent the summer of 1960, that's after… after graduating from Case, I spent the summer writing this compiler for… for ALGOL, for the Burroughs 205. And… and I wrote it… but really I… I had it only in pencil and paper, I didn't have it… I didn’t have it ready to go, and… and then I would take it with me as I went out to Pasadena, and work on it there when I was at the Burroughs plant in Pasadena. So on my… on my way out West I had a little Volkswagen, that my … I had gotten from my parents, and I drove 100 miles a day, and got a motel, and sat down, and wrote code, wrote software, and… and took 30 days to drive from Milwaukee to… to Pasadena, every day writing a little bit of this software. Then I got to Pasadena, and… and had all my code… had all my notes, and started putting it on to punched cards, and you know, debugging it and by Christmas time I had their compiler for them, and… and it was a machine that didn't sell very well, so there weren't too many places in the world, but I… I heard for the next 10 years that people in Brazil were still using it a lot, and… and so it was a… it was an interesting experience for me, but the most important, from my point of view, was I had $5500, which was enough to get married.
And so… so in the summer of '61 Jill and I got married, and… and it paid for our honeymoon trip in Europe, which was our first time seeing… seeing the world.
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TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at Caltech were really, really selective they… at Caltech, the undergrads… one out of three of them was first in their high school class, and the other two out of three were very near the top. And so it was awesome, the… the people there… but they only admitted 200 students a year into Caltech as undergrads. Graduate students, we had 12 of us in our… in the math program, and they were excellent as well. It wasn't like at Case where anybody could get into the Graduate School at the time. So… so I knew I had my work cut out for me, and I… again I went back into a mode where I did more than I needed to for my classes. But I also liked the people at Burroughs, so I took… and… and so I took a consulting job at Burroughs, working with their software group, which… which I had great admiration for. Their software group had, for another computer – the Burroughs 220 – had written one of the best pieces of software ever – an ALGOL compiler for the 220 – and I got… and I got to know the people who did that, and… and learned a lot from them. So I enjoyed joining their group, but I wasn't… but according to the rules, I couldn't have my Fellowship… I couldn't have a Fellowship from the National Science Foundation or from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, I couldn't have those… that financial support and… and not be a full time student. Having, you know, it was a no-no to also be a consultant, also be working… working outside Caltech. Wow, your education couldn't possibly be any good that way. So… so I… I renounced those Fellowships, and I did become a consultant, and I would spend time over at Burroughs several days a week, and for the next 6 or 7… 7 or 8 years, all… all the while I was down there in Pasadena.
The people at Burroughs were splendid to work with. I was in a… a group called Product Planning, which designed… had designed, or was in the… early on was… was in the process of designing a completely new kind of computer, one that would do in… in hardware what… what we had been doing in software before. That kind of computer is… is not in… it's been realized later that it doesn't really provide a real good cost benefit trade off – it's better to build cheap hardware and good… and then make software than to build expensive hardware, but at that time it was… it was, you know, it was… it was not at all clear what… what the future would say about that issue. And so we had the most complicated machine ever… ever built – the Burroughs 5000, then the 5500, 6500, that came out later. And the Product Planning group where… where I was consulting was the group in charge of specifying the machine. Another group, the Engineers, had to build the machine. It was completely different than any machine done before. And my role as a consultant was to talk to the engineers who were building it and make sure that they understood what the designers on the other floor knew. And so I got, really, to talk to almost everybody in the company, and my role was… was more of a communications role than anything else. These… these people, if they went through channels, they would have to go several levels up the hierarchy, and down again, and they… they couldn't talk to each other, but they could talk to me, and then I could talk to the people in the other group, and so I… and so I… I could provide a valuable service to Burroughs, and they… they would pay me, I think, you know… I think I was getting $5 an hour, or $7 an hour – considered high at the time – but it had no medical benefits or anything associated with it, so from their point of view they were getting… they were getting a good deal too.
And… and one of my roles was to check out the designs of the engineers, and see if there were any mistakes in them before they… before they would… before they would build the machine. They… they would first take their designs and put them through a computer program to see if they would simulate, and… and apparently work correctly, but then, after they thought it was working correctly, then they would show it to me, and I still found several hundred errors in the design that… that I was able to catch… well, you know, in very weird cases that could come up, but hadn't arisen during the simulations, so that the… the expensive corrections to the hardware weren't necessary. You know, really my role in that time… well, then communication and… and trying to find errors… trying to… you know, if… if I could look at somebody else's program, or design, and couldn't find any mistakes in it, it was a rare event, and I would feel bad. I mean finding errors was my… was the big treat for me in those… in those days, so far as my… my work in computers was concerned.
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A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a historical view of this early machine's creation. Burroughs Corporation was merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation. Information courtesy of Unisys Archives, Charles Babbage Institute, and Bitsavers.org. Provided for non-commercial use only. Educational reference material. Runtime: 13 mins.
Published with permission under the Creative Commons License:
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The B6500 was a successor to the B5500 Computer, and was upgraded to the B6700 Computer in the field. We hope you enjoy this brief walk down "memory lane" during the highly competitive mainframe computer marketplace of the mid 1960's.
- published: 06 Jul 2016
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"On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system.
Excellent footage of computers and data processing.
Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management"
Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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System Development Corporation (SDC), based in Santa Monica, California, was considered the world's first computer software company.
SDC started in 1955 as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at the RAND Corporation. RAND spun off the group in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems.
SDC became for-profit in 1969. With that change, it began to offer its services to all comers rather than only to the American military.
In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation. In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems...
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The IBM 709 was an early computer system introduced by IBM in August 1958. It was an improved version of the IBM 704 and the second member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The IBM 709 added overlapped input/output, indirect addressing, and three "convert" instructions (which provided support for decimal arithmetic, leading zero suppression, and several other operations). The 709 had 32,768 words of 36-bit memory and could execute 42,000 add or subtract instructions or 5000 multiplies per second.
An optional hardware emulator executed legacy IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709. This was the first commercially available emulator prior to 1960. Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware. Complex 704 instructions such as floating point trap and input-output routines were emulated in 709 software.
The 709 was built using vacuum tubes. IBM introduced a transistorized version of the 709, called the IBM 7090, in November 1959.
The FORTRAN Assembly Program was first introduced for the 709.
Registers
The IBM 709 had a 38 bit accumulator, a 36 bit multiplier quotient register, and three 15 bit index registers whose contents were subtracted from the base address instead of being added to it. Addition could be performed using two's complement arithmetic and instructions were provided for this purpose. All three index registers could participate in an instruction: the 3 bit tag field in the instruction was a bit map specifying which of the registers would participate in the operation, however if more than one index register was specified, their contents were combined by a logical or operation, not addition.
Instruction and data formats
There were five instruction formats, referred to as Types A, B,C, D and E. Most instructions were of type B.
Type A instructions had, in sequence, a three bit prefix (instruction code), a 15 bit decrement field, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field. They were conditional jump operations based on the values in the decrement registers specified in the tag field. Some also subtracted the decrement field from the contents of the index registers. The implementation required that the second two bits of the instruction code be non-zero, giving a total of six possible type A instructions. One (STR, instruction code binary 101) was not implemented until the IBM 709.
Type B instructions had, in sequence, a 12 bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a two bit flag field, four unused bits, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field.
Types C, D and E were used for specialized instructions...
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Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite. Check out his visits to the ASICS America headquarters where he gave his input, and talked about what it means for him to be an athlete getting his own signature shoe for the first time.
- published: 17 Jul 2013
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ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first time father. Watch this intimate look at the private life of one of the top athletes in the world: from mowing the lawn, to a tour of his closet filled with his favorite shoes, and some insight into what his accomplishments truly mean to him and where his life has led him. This is the story of a good man who dedicated his life to greatness - both in and out of the ring.
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Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Posted: Aug 27, 2013
Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power.
The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical "shield" against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War tensions emerged impressive technical advances in hardware and software systems design, real-time control, and air traffic monitoring.
Advances such as the light gun, modems, duplex CPUs, multiprocessing, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, as well as networking arose as ancillary technologies of SAGE development. But did SAGE really work as advertised? Should we care? This lecture reflects on these questions, SAGE's context, and its technical spinoffs.
The lecture takes place in front of 400 square feet of actual SAGE hardware, including Weapons Director and Intercept Technician consoles! This equipment is from the last functioning SAGE center in North Bay, Ontario (Canada), decommissioned in 1982. The USAF SAGE Film "In Your Defense" will also be shown. "I like Ike" buttons optional.
The Speakers:
This lecture's speakers represent a variety of perspectives, from the history of technology, to hardware and software systems engineering:
Les Earnest: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University, Project Engineer and System Designer, SAGE system hardware. Founding President, Imagen Corporation; former Associate Chairman, Stanford University Computer Science Department; Executive Officer, Stanford AI Lab; Department Head, Information Systems Dept, MITRE Corporation; Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory... and inventor of the original (DEC-10/20) FINGER program!
James Wong: Computer Systems Engineer, Burroughs Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Project Engineer on SAGE system software for The RAND Corporation 1955-1963; Team Leader, System Development Corporation (SDC), Lincoln Laboratory, SAGE and Project "465-L." Mathematician and programmer for the IBM CPC, 701, and RAND Johnniac. Wong is retired and currently volunteers as an instructor in Mathematics with the Learning Disabled Program at Foothill College.
Paul Edwards: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University; author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America." Edwards has also authored dozens of articles on the history of computing and has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Michigan and UC - Santa Cruz. His next book is entitled: "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics." Edwards will be making a 30-minute presentation.
This talk was sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun Microsystems.
- published: 27 Aug 2013
- views: 4640
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.
He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms". He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.
As a writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures. As a member of the academic and scientific community, Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents. He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organization.
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1:52Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)
Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories. Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour. TRANSCRIPT: Burroughs was a company started in the 19th century, and was… and was quite pre-eminent in… in all… in the banking industry, almost everybody used… used equipment from Burroughs to… to do its accounting, and… and in the early days of computing, Burroughs acquired the Electrodata Corporation, in Pasadena, and they… they were one of the many companies putting out computer. And as… as I say, not only that, they had very innovative computers, and… and I liked the spirit of the… of all the employees working… working there as well. The… in the… later on, they were... they were acquired by Sperry Rand, this was in the 70s, I think, and became Unisys, combined with Sperry Rand. So… so half of… half of Unisys was… was former Burroughs Corporation, and the half of it was the Sperry, which… the Rand… Remington Rand… the people who… who had built the UNIVAC computer. The… that happened after I… after I was no longer in Pasadena. And… and they continued to… to have banks as their primary customer base, but then, in more recent years, the… you know, other… other companies survived, and there were many, many changes in the computer industry, to that time. So Burroughs was, you know, Edsger Dijkstra was also a consultant to Burroughs during the 60s, and he would come out to Pasadena, visit periodically, they… and it was… and it was a great company to work for in those days, I think. -
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5:01Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)
Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories. Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour. TRANSCRIPT: During the summer, between… between Case in Cleveland and Caltech in Pasadena, I had a summer job of writing... writing compilers, this algebraic… this... this software that converts algebraic language into machine language. I had a job writing a compiler for Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs was headquartered in Pasadena – I mean the Burroughs Division that… that was dealing with software was headquartered in Pasadena – and Case had recently installed a Burroughs computer that I liked very much, during my senior year. Some people from Thompson Ramo Wooldridge approached me and said, ‘Don, we understand that you can write compilers. We're going to put in a proposal to Burroughs to write a compiler for their machine ( the… the Burroughs 205) for a language called ALGOL’, which was just… just being invented at that time – the ALGOrithmic Language an international standard, that was supposed to replace FORTRAN, the most popular language at the time. And so Thompson Ramo Wooldridge was… made a proposal to Burroughs for I believe it was $70,000, to create a ALGOL compiler for the Burroughs 205. The people who made this proposal really, though, were clueless about how to write compilers, so they hired me, a… a Case Senior, to… to do the job, because they had heard that I knew how to do it. I had done this RUNCIBLE and a… and a couple of versions of… of other software at Case. So spring of my Senior year, they… they are showing me… they're… they’re showing me about this… this machine that Burroughs had, and I… and I started playing around with the.. with the computer, and I had learned… got interested in the… in the project, but Burroughs turned them down; they didn't give them the contract. So after Burroughs said, no, they weren't going to do it with Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, well I…I said, well, wait a minute, I've, maybe I'll write to Burroughs on my own, and I sent them a letter and said, I'll, you know, for $5000 I can write you an ALGOL compiler. Now $5000 was a huge amount of money in 1959… in 1960. I… I mean a… a college professor was making $8000 a year or something like this. So I… I thought $5000 was… was an incredibly rich thing, you know, to… to do. I said to Burroughs… no, I… except that… I can do it in the summer, except I won't have time to… to implement all of this ALGOL, I'll… I’ll be able to do everything except procedures. I'll be able to, you know… which is actually the hardest thing to do in a compiler… which is of subroutines, the ability to extend the language. Well, they wrote back saying you… we can't have ALGOL without procedures, you've got to put procedures in too. And so I thought about it and said… and figured out, oh yeah… ‘Okay, I see how I can do it, but you'll… you’ll have to pay me $5500, instead of $5000’. So they said, ‘Okay’. So I spent the summer of 1960, that's after… after graduating from Case, I spent the summer writing this compiler for… for ALGOL, for the Burroughs 205. And… and I wrote it… but really I… I had it only in pencil and paper, I didn't have it… I didn’t have it ready to go, and… and then I would take it with me as I went out to Pasadena, and work on it there when I was at the Burroughs plant in Pasadena. So on my… on my way out West I had a little Volkswagen, that my … I had gotten from my parents, and I drove 100 miles a day, and got a motel, and sat down, and wrote code, wrote software, and… and took 30 days to drive from Milwaukee to… to Pasadena, every day writing a little bit of this software. Then I got to Pasadena, and… and had all my code… had all my notes, and started putting it on to punched cards, and you know, debugging it and by Christmas time I had their compiler for them, and… and it was a machine that didn't sell very well, so there weren't too many places in the world, but I… I heard for the next 10 years that people in Brazil were still using it a lot, and… and so it was a… it was an interesting experience for me, but the most important, from my point of view, was I had $5500, which was enough to get married. And so… so in the summer of '61 Jill and I got married, and… and it paid for our honeymoon trip in Europe, which was our first time seeing… seeing the world. -
5:27Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)
Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)
TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at Caltech were really, really selective they… at Caltech, the undergrads… one out of three of them was first in their high school class, and the other two out of three were very near the top. And so it was awesome, the… the people there… but they only admitted 200 students a year into Caltech as undergrads. Graduate students, we had 12 of us in our… in the math program, and they were excellent as well. It wasn't like at Case where anybody could get into the Graduate School at the time. So… so I knew I had my work cut out for me, and I… again I went back into a mode where I did more than I needed to for my classes. But I also liked the people at Burroughs, so I took… and… and so I took a consulting job at Burroughs, working with their software group, which… which I had great admiration for. Their software group had, for another computer – the Burroughs 220 – had written one of the best pieces of software ever – an ALGOL compiler for the 220 – and I got… and I got to know the people who did that, and… and learned a lot from them. So I enjoyed joining their group, but I wasn't… but according to the rules, I couldn't have my Fellowship… I couldn't have a Fellowship from the National Science Foundation or from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, I couldn't have those… that financial support and… and not be a full time student. Having, you know, it was a no-no to also be a consultant, also be working… working outside Caltech. Wow, your education couldn't possibly be any good that way. So… so I… I renounced those Fellowships, and I did become a consultant, and I would spend time over at Burroughs several days a week, and for the next 6 or 7… 7 or 8 years, all… all the while I was down there in Pasadena. The people at Burroughs were splendid to work with. I was in a… a group called Product Planning, which designed… had designed, or was in the… early on was… was in the process of designing a completely new kind of computer, one that would do in… in hardware what… what we had been doing in software before. That kind of computer is… is not in… it's been realized later that it doesn't really provide a real good cost benefit trade off – it's better to build cheap hardware and good… and then make software than to build expensive hardware, but at that time it was… it was, you know, it was… it was not at all clear what… what the future would say about that issue. And so we had the most complicated machine ever… ever built – the Burroughs 5000, then the 5500, 6500, that came out later. And the Product Planning group where… where I was consulting was the group in charge of specifying the machine. Another group, the Engineers, had to build the machine. It was completely different than any machine done before. And my role as a consultant was to talk to the engineers who were building it and make sure that they understood what the designers on the other floor knew. And so I got, really, to talk to almost everybody in the company, and my role was… was more of a communications role than anything else. These… these people, if they went through channels, they would have to go several levels up the hierarchy, and down again, and they… they couldn't talk to each other, but they could talk to me, and then I could talk to the people in the other group, and so I… and so I… I could provide a valuable service to Burroughs, and they… they would pay me, I think, you know… I think I was getting $5 an hour, or $7 an hour – considered high at the time – but it had no medical benefits or anything associated with it, so from their point of view they were getting… they were getting a good deal too. And… and one of my roles was to check out the designs of the engineers, and see if there were any mistakes in them before they… before they would… before they would build the machine. They… they would first take their designs and put them through a computer program to see if they would simulate, and… and apparently work correctly, but then, after they thought it was working correctly, then they would show it to me, and I still found several hundred errors in the design that… that I was able to catch… well, you know, in very weird cases that could come up, but hadn't arisen during the simulations, so that the… the expensive corrections to the hardware weren't necessary. You know, really my role in that time… well, then communication and… and trying to find errors… trying to… you know, if… if I could look at somebody else's program, or design, and couldn't find any mistakes in it, it was a rare event, and I would feel bad. I mean finding errors was my… was the big treat for me in those… in those days, so far as my… my work in computers was concerned. -
13:501969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a historical view of this early machine's creation. Burroughs Corporation was merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation. Information courtesy of Unisys Archives, Charles Babbage Institute, and Bitsavers.org. Provided for non-commercial use only. Educational reference material. Runtime: 13 mins. Published with permission under the Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The B6500 was a successor to the B5500 Computer, and was upgraded to the B6700 Computer in the field. We hope you enjoy this brief walk down "memory lane" during the highly competitive mainframe computer marketplace of the mid 1960's. -
26:07Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development CorporationComputer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
more at http://computers.quickfound.net/ "On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system. Excellent footage of computers and data processing. Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management" Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Development_Corporation System Development Corporation (SDC), based in Santa Monica, California, was considered the world's first computer software company. SDC started in 1955 as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at the RAND Corporation. RAND spun off the group in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems. SDC became for-profit in 1969. With that change, it began to offer its services to all comers rather than only to the American military. In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation. In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709 The IBM 709 was an early computer system introduced by IBM in August 1958. It was an improved version of the IBM 704 and the second member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The IBM 709 added overlapped input/output, indirect addressing, and three "convert" instructions (which provided support for decimal arithmetic, leading zero suppression, and several other operations). The 709 had 32,768 words of 36-bit memory and could execute 42,000 add or subtract instructions or 5000 multiplies per second. An optional hardware emulator executed legacy IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709. This was the first commercially available emulator prior to 1960. Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware. Complex 704 instructions such as floating point trap and input-output routines were emulated in 709 software. The 709 was built using vacuum tubes. IBM introduced a transistorized version of the 709, called the IBM 7090, in November 1959. The FORTRAN Assembly Program was first introduced for the 709. Registers The IBM 709 had a 38 bit accumulator, a 36 bit multiplier quotient register, and three 15 bit index registers whose contents were subtracted from the base address instead of being added to it. Addition could be performed using two's complement arithmetic and instructions were provided for this purpose. All three index registers could participate in an instruction: the 3 bit tag field in the instruction was a bit map specifying which of the registers would participate in the operation, however if more than one index register was specified, their contents were combined by a logical or operation, not addition. Instruction and data formats There were five instruction formats, referred to as Types A, B,C, D and E. Most instructions were of type B. Type A instructions had, in sequence, a three bit prefix (instruction code), a 15 bit decrement field, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field. They were conditional jump operations based on the values in the decrement registers specified in the tag field. Some also subtracted the decrement field from the contents of the index registers. The implementation required that the second two bits of the instruction code be non-zero, giving a total of six possible type A instructions. One (STR, instruction code binary 101) was not implemented until the IBM 709. Type B instructions had, in sequence, a 12 bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a two bit flag field, four unused bits, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field. Types C, D and E were used for specialized instructions... -
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2:39Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling ShoeDesigning the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite. Check out his visits to the ASICS America headquarters where he gave his input, and talked about what it means for him to be an athlete getting his own signature shoe for the first time. -
5:25A Day In the Life of Jordan Burroughs
A Day In the Life of Jordan BurroughsA Day In the Life of Jordan Burroughs
ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first time father. Watch this intimate look at the private life of one of the top athletes in the world: from mowing the lawn, to a tour of his closet filled with his favorite shoes, and some insight into what his accomplishments truly mean to him and where his life has led him. This is the story of a good man who dedicated his life to greatness - both in and out of the ring. -
99:08Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 Posted: Aug 27, 2013 Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power. The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical "shield" against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War tensions emerged impressive technical advances in hardware and software systems design, real-time control, and air traffic monitoring. Advances such as the light gun, modems, duplex CPUs, multiprocessing, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, as well as networking arose as ancillary technologies of SAGE development. But did SAGE really work as advertised? Should we care? This lecture reflects on these questions, SAGE's context, and its technical spinoffs. The lecture takes place in front of 400 square feet of actual SAGE hardware, including Weapons Director and Intercept Technician consoles! This equipment is from the last functioning SAGE center in North Bay, Ontario (Canada), decommissioned in 1982. The USAF SAGE Film "In Your Defense" will also be shown. "I like Ike" buttons optional. The Speakers: This lecture's speakers represent a variety of perspectives, from the history of technology, to hardware and software systems engineering: Les Earnest: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University, Project Engineer and System Designer, SAGE system hardware. Founding President, Imagen Corporation; former Associate Chairman, Stanford University Computer Science Department; Executive Officer, Stanford AI Lab; Department Head, Information Systems Dept, MITRE Corporation; Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory... and inventor of the original (DEC-10/20) FINGER program! James Wong: Computer Systems Engineer, Burroughs Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Project Engineer on SAGE system software for The RAND Corporation 1955-1963; Team Leader, System Development Corporation (SDC), Lincoln Laboratory, SAGE and Project "465-L." Mathematician and programmer for the IBM CPC, 701, and RAND Johnniac. Wong is retired and currently volunteers as an instructor in Mathematics with the Learning Disabled Program at Foothill College. Paul Edwards: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University; author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America." Edwards has also authored dozens of articles on the history of computing and has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Michigan and UC - Santa Cruz. His next book is entitled: "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics." Edwards will be making a 30-minute presentation. This talk was sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun Microsystems.
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Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories. Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour. TRANSCRIPT: Burroughs was a company started in the 19th century, and was… and was quite pre-eminent in… in all… in the banking industry, almost everybody used… used equipment from Burroughs to… to do its accounting, and… and in the early days of computing, Burroughs acquired the Electrodata Corporation, in Pasadena, and they… they were one of the many companies putting out computer. And as… as I say, not only that... -
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Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories. Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour. TRANSCRIPT: During the summer, between… between Case in Cleveland and Caltech in Pasadena, I had a summer job of writing... writing compilers, this algebraic… this... this software that converts algebraic language into machine language. I had a job writing a compiler for Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs was headquartered in Pasadena – I mean the Burroughs Division that… that was dealing with software was headquart... -
Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)
TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at Caltech were really, really selective they… at Caltech, the undergrads… one out of three of them was first in their high school class, and the other two out of three were very near the top. And so it was awesome, the… the people there… but they only admitted 200 students a year into Caltech as undergrads. Graduate students, we had 12 of us in our… in the math program, and they were excellent as well. It wasn't like at Case where anybody could get into the Graduate School at the time. So… so I knew I had my work cut out for me, and I… again I went back into a mode where I did more than I needed to for my classes. But I also liked the... -
1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a historical view of this early machine's creation. Burroughs Corporation was merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation. Information courtesy of Unisys Archives, Charles Babbage Institute, and Bitsavers.org. Provided for non-commercial use only. Educational reference material. Runtime: 13 mins. Published with permission under the Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The B6500 was a successor to the B5500 Computer, and was upgraded to the B6700 Computer in the field. We hope you enjoy this brief walk down "memory lane" during the highly competitive mainframe compu... -
Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
more at http://computers.quickfound.net/ "On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system. Excellent footage of computers and data processing. Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management" Public domai... -
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Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite. Check out his visits to the ASICS America headquarters where he gave his input, and talked about what it means for him to be an athlete getting his own signature shoe for the first time. -
A Day In the Life of Jordan Burroughs
ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first time father. Watch this intimate look at the private life of one of the top athletes in the world: from mowing the lawn, to a tour of his closet filled with his favorite shoes, and some insight into what his accomplishments truly mean to him and where his life has led him. This is the story of a good man who dedicated his life to greatness - both in and out of the ring. -
Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 Posted: Aug 27, 2013 Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power. The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical "shield" against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War ...
Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)
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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing p...
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories.
Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: Burroughs was a company started in the 19th century, and was… and was quite pre-eminent in… in all… in the banking industry, almost everybody used… used equipment from Burroughs to… to do its accounting, and… and in the early days of computing, Burroughs acquired the Electrodata Corporation, in Pasadena, and they… they were one of the many companies putting out computer. And as… as I say, not only that, they had very innovative computers, and… and I liked the spirit of the… of all the employees working… working there as well. The… in the… later on, they were... they were acquired by Sperry Rand, this was in the 70s, I think, and became Unisys, combined with Sperry Rand. So… so half of… half of Unisys was… was former Burroughs Corporation, and the half of it was the Sperry, which… the Rand… Remington Rand… the people who… who had built the UNIVAC computer. The… that happened after I… after I was no longer in Pasadena. And… and they continued to… to have banks as their primary customer base, but then, in more recent years, the… you know, other… other companies survived, and there were many, many changes in the computer industry, to that time. So Burroughs was, you know, Edsger Dijkstra was also a consultant to Burroughs during the 60s, and he would come out to Pasadena, visit periodically, they… and it was… and it was a great company to work for in those days, I think.
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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: Burroughs was a company started in the 19th century, and was… and was quite pre-eminent in… in all… in the banking industry, almost everybody used… used equipment from Burroughs to… to do its accounting, and… and in the early days of computing, Burroughs acquired the Electrodata Corporation, in Pasadena, and they… they were one of the many companies putting out computer. And as… as I say, not only that, they had very innovative computers, and… and I liked the spirit of the… of all the employees working… working there as well. The… in the… later on, they were... they were acquired by Sperry Rand, this was in the 70s, I think, and became Unisys, combined with Sperry Rand. So… so half of… half of Unisys was… was former Burroughs Corporation, and the half of it was the Sperry, which… the Rand… Remington Rand… the people who… who had built the UNIVAC computer. The… that happened after I… after I was no longer in Pasadena. And… and they continued to… to have banks as their primary customer base, but then, in more recent years, the… you know, other… other companies survived, and there were many, many changes in the computer industry, to that time. So Burroughs was, you know, Edsger Dijkstra was also a consultant to Burroughs during the 60s, and he would come out to Pasadena, visit periodically, they… and it was… and it was a great company to work for in those days, I think.
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Burroughs Adding Machine History
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The Power to Serve is the PR film chronicling the Detroit based, Burroughs company that invented the modern adding machine. Burroughs was one of the industrial...
The Power to Serve is the PR film chronicling the Detroit based, Burroughs company that invented the modern adding machine. Burroughs was one of the industrial mainstays of Detroit.
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Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)
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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing p...
Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories.
Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: During the summer, between… between Case in Cleveland and Caltech in Pasadena, I had a summer job of writing... writing compilers, this algebraic… this... this software that converts algebraic language into machine language. I had a job writing a compiler for Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs was headquartered in Pasadena – I mean the Burroughs Division that… that was dealing with software was headquartered in Pasadena – and Case had recently installed a Burroughs computer that I liked very much, during my senior year. Some people from Thompson Ramo Wooldridge approached me and said, ‘Don, we understand that you can write compilers. We're going to put in a proposal to Burroughs to write a compiler for their machine ( the… the Burroughs 205) for a language called ALGOL’, which was just… just being invented at that time – the ALGOrithmic Language an international standard, that was supposed to replace FORTRAN, the most popular language at the time. And so Thompson Ramo Wooldridge was… made a proposal to Burroughs for I believe it was $70,000, to create a ALGOL compiler for the Burroughs 205. The people who made this proposal really, though, were clueless about how to write compilers, so they hired me, a… a Case Senior, to… to do the job, because they had heard that I knew how to do it. I had done this RUNCIBLE and a… and a couple of versions of… of other software at Case. So spring of my Senior year, they… they are showing me… they're… they’re showing me about this… this machine that Burroughs had, and I… and I started playing around with the.. with the computer, and I had learned… got interested in the… in the project, but Burroughs turned them down; they didn't give them the contract.
So after Burroughs said, no, they weren't going to do it with Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, well I…I said, well, wait a minute, I've, maybe I'll write to Burroughs on my own, and I sent them a letter and said, I'll, you know, for $5000 I can write you an ALGOL compiler. Now $5000 was a huge amount of money in 1959… in 1960. I… I mean a… a college professor was making $8000 a year or something like this. So I… I thought $5000 was… was an incredibly rich thing, you know, to… to do. I said to Burroughs… no, I… except that… I can do it in the summer, except I won't have time to… to implement all of this ALGOL, I'll… I’ll be able to do everything except procedures. I'll be able to, you know… which is actually the hardest thing to do in a compiler… which is of subroutines, the ability to extend the language. Well, they wrote back saying you… we can't have ALGOL without procedures, you've got to put procedures in too. And so I thought about it and said… and figured out, oh yeah… ‘Okay, I see how I can do it, but you'll… you’ll have to pay me $5500, instead of $5000’. So they said, ‘Okay’.
So I spent the summer of 1960, that's after… after graduating from Case, I spent the summer writing this compiler for… for ALGOL, for the Burroughs 205. And… and I wrote it… but really I… I had it only in pencil and paper, I didn't have it… I didn’t have it ready to go, and… and then I would take it with me as I went out to Pasadena, and work on it there when I was at the Burroughs plant in Pasadena. So on my… on my way out West I had a little Volkswagen, that my … I had gotten from my parents, and I drove 100 miles a day, and got a motel, and sat down, and wrote code, wrote software, and… and took 30 days to drive from Milwaukee to… to Pasadena, every day writing a little bit of this software. Then I got to Pasadena, and… and had all my code… had all my notes, and started putting it on to punched cards, and you know, debugging it and by Christmas time I had their compiler for them, and… and it was a machine that didn't sell very well, so there weren't too many places in the world, but I… I heard for the next 10 years that people in Brazil were still using it a lot, and… and so it was a… it was an interesting experience for me, but the most important, from my point of view, was I had $5500, which was enough to get married.
And so… so in the summer of '61 Jill and I got married, and… and it paid for our honeymoon trip in Europe, which was our first time seeing… seeing the world.
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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
TRANSCRIPT: During the summer, between… between Case in Cleveland and Caltech in Pasadena, I had a summer job of writing... writing compilers, this algebraic… this... this software that converts algebraic language into machine language. I had a job writing a compiler for Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs was headquartered in Pasadena – I mean the Burroughs Division that… that was dealing with software was headquartered in Pasadena – and Case had recently installed a Burroughs computer that I liked very much, during my senior year. Some people from Thompson Ramo Wooldridge approached me and said, ‘Don, we understand that you can write compilers. We're going to put in a proposal to Burroughs to write a compiler for their machine ( the… the Burroughs 205) for a language called ALGOL’, which was just… just being invented at that time – the ALGOrithmic Language an international standard, that was supposed to replace FORTRAN, the most popular language at the time. And so Thompson Ramo Wooldridge was… made a proposal to Burroughs for I believe it was $70,000, to create a ALGOL compiler for the Burroughs 205. The people who made this proposal really, though, were clueless about how to write compilers, so they hired me, a… a Case Senior, to… to do the job, because they had heard that I knew how to do it. I had done this RUNCIBLE and a… and a couple of versions of… of other software at Case. So spring of my Senior year, they… they are showing me… they're… they’re showing me about this… this machine that Burroughs had, and I… and I started playing around with the.. with the computer, and I had learned… got interested in the… in the project, but Burroughs turned them down; they didn't give them the contract.
So after Burroughs said, no, they weren't going to do it with Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, well I…I said, well, wait a minute, I've, maybe I'll write to Burroughs on my own, and I sent them a letter and said, I'll, you know, for $5000 I can write you an ALGOL compiler. Now $5000 was a huge amount of money in 1959… in 1960. I… I mean a… a college professor was making $8000 a year or something like this. So I… I thought $5000 was… was an incredibly rich thing, you know, to… to do. I said to Burroughs… no, I… except that… I can do it in the summer, except I won't have time to… to implement all of this ALGOL, I'll… I’ll be able to do everything except procedures. I'll be able to, you know… which is actually the hardest thing to do in a compiler… which is of subroutines, the ability to extend the language. Well, they wrote back saying you… we can't have ALGOL without procedures, you've got to put procedures in too. And so I thought about it and said… and figured out, oh yeah… ‘Okay, I see how I can do it, but you'll… you’ll have to pay me $5500, instead of $5000’. So they said, ‘Okay’.
So I spent the summer of 1960, that's after… after graduating from Case, I spent the summer writing this compiler for… for ALGOL, for the Burroughs 205. And… and I wrote it… but really I… I had it only in pencil and paper, I didn't have it… I didn’t have it ready to go, and… and then I would take it with me as I went out to Pasadena, and work on it there when I was at the Burroughs plant in Pasadena. So on my… on my way out West I had a little Volkswagen, that my … I had gotten from my parents, and I drove 100 miles a day, and got a motel, and sat down, and wrote code, wrote software, and… and took 30 days to drive from Milwaukee to… to Pasadena, every day writing a little bit of this software. Then I got to Pasadena, and… and had all my code… had all my notes, and started putting it on to punched cards, and you know, debugging it and by Christmas time I had their compiler for them, and… and it was a machine that didn't sell very well, so there weren't too many places in the world, but I… I heard for the next 10 years that people in Brazil were still using it a lot, and… and so it was a… it was an interesting experience for me, but the most important, from my point of view, was I had $5500, which was enough to get married.
And so… so in the summer of '61 Jill and I got married, and… and it paid for our honeymoon trip in Europe, which was our first time seeing… seeing the world.
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Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)
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TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at C...
TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at Caltech were really, really selective they… at Caltech, the undergrads… one out of three of them was first in their high school class, and the other two out of three were very near the top. And so it was awesome, the… the people there… but they only admitted 200 students a year into Caltech as undergrads. Graduate students, we had 12 of us in our… in the math program, and they were excellent as well. It wasn't like at Case where anybody could get into the Graduate School at the time. So… so I knew I had my work cut out for me, and I… again I went back into a mode where I did more than I needed to for my classes. But I also liked the people at Burroughs, so I took… and… and so I took a consulting job at Burroughs, working with their software group, which… which I had great admiration for. Their software group had, for another computer – the Burroughs 220 – had written one of the best pieces of software ever – an ALGOL compiler for the 220 – and I got… and I got to know the people who did that, and… and learned a lot from them. So I enjoyed joining their group, but I wasn't… but according to the rules, I couldn't have my Fellowship… I couldn't have a Fellowship from the National Science Foundation or from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, I couldn't have those… that financial support and… and not be a full time student. Having, you know, it was a no-no to also be a consultant, also be working… working outside Caltech. Wow, your education couldn't possibly be any good that way. So… so I… I renounced those Fellowships, and I did become a consultant, and I would spend time over at Burroughs several days a week, and for the next 6 or 7… 7 or 8 years, all… all the while I was down there in Pasadena.
The people at Burroughs were splendid to work with. I was in a… a group called Product Planning, which designed… had designed, or was in the… early on was… was in the process of designing a completely new kind of computer, one that would do in… in hardware what… what we had been doing in software before. That kind of computer is… is not in… it's been realized later that it doesn't really provide a real good cost benefit trade off – it's better to build cheap hardware and good… and then make software than to build expensive hardware, but at that time it was… it was, you know, it was… it was not at all clear what… what the future would say about that issue. And so we had the most complicated machine ever… ever built – the Burroughs 5000, then the 5500, 6500, that came out later. And the Product Planning group where… where I was consulting was the group in charge of specifying the machine. Another group, the Engineers, had to build the machine. It was completely different than any machine done before. And my role as a consultant was to talk to the engineers who were building it and make sure that they understood what the designers on the other floor knew. And so I got, really, to talk to almost everybody in the company, and my role was… was more of a communications role than anything else. These… these people, if they went through channels, they would have to go several levels up the hierarchy, and down again, and they… they couldn't talk to each other, but they could talk to me, and then I could talk to the people in the other group, and so I… and so I… I could provide a valuable service to Burroughs, and they… they would pay me, I think, you know… I think I was getting $5 an hour, or $7 an hour – considered high at the time – but it had no medical benefits or anything associated with it, so from their point of view they were getting… they were getting a good deal too.
And… and one of my roles was to check out the designs of the engineers, and see if there were any mistakes in them before they… before they would… before they would build the machine. They… they would first take their designs and put them through a computer program to see if they would simulate, and… and apparently work correctly, but then, after they thought it was working correctly, then they would show it to me, and I still found several hundred errors in the design that… that I was able to catch… well, you know, in very weird cases that could come up, but hadn't arisen during the simulations, so that the… the expensive corrections to the hardware weren't necessary. You know, really my role in that time… well, then communication and… and trying to find errors… trying to… you know, if… if I could look at somebody else's program, or design, and couldn't find any mistakes in it, it was a rare event, and I would feel bad. I mean finding errors was my… was the big treat for me in those… in those days, so far as my… my work in computers was concerned.
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TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scared stiff that I wouldn't be able to succeed, because the students at Caltech were really, really selective they… at Caltech, the undergrads… one out of three of them was first in their high school class, and the other two out of three were very near the top. And so it was awesome, the… the people there… but they only admitted 200 students a year into Caltech as undergrads. Graduate students, we had 12 of us in our… in the math program, and they were excellent as well. It wasn't like at Case where anybody could get into the Graduate School at the time. So… so I knew I had my work cut out for me, and I… again I went back into a mode where I did more than I needed to for my classes. But I also liked the people at Burroughs, so I took… and… and so I took a consulting job at Burroughs, working with their software group, which… which I had great admiration for. Their software group had, for another computer – the Burroughs 220 – had written one of the best pieces of software ever – an ALGOL compiler for the 220 – and I got… and I got to know the people who did that, and… and learned a lot from them. So I enjoyed joining their group, but I wasn't… but according to the rules, I couldn't have my Fellowship… I couldn't have a Fellowship from the National Science Foundation or from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, I couldn't have those… that financial support and… and not be a full time student. Having, you know, it was a no-no to also be a consultant, also be working… working outside Caltech. Wow, your education couldn't possibly be any good that way. So… so I… I renounced those Fellowships, and I did become a consultant, and I would spend time over at Burroughs several days a week, and for the next 6 or 7… 7 or 8 years, all… all the while I was down there in Pasadena.
The people at Burroughs were splendid to work with. I was in a… a group called Product Planning, which designed… had designed, or was in the… early on was… was in the process of designing a completely new kind of computer, one that would do in… in hardware what… what we had been doing in software before. That kind of computer is… is not in… it's been realized later that it doesn't really provide a real good cost benefit trade off – it's better to build cheap hardware and good… and then make software than to build expensive hardware, but at that time it was… it was, you know, it was… it was not at all clear what… what the future would say about that issue. And so we had the most complicated machine ever… ever built – the Burroughs 5000, then the 5500, 6500, that came out later. And the Product Planning group where… where I was consulting was the group in charge of specifying the machine. Another group, the Engineers, had to build the machine. It was completely different than any machine done before. And my role as a consultant was to talk to the engineers who were building it and make sure that they understood what the designers on the other floor knew. And so I got, really, to talk to almost everybody in the company, and my role was… was more of a communications role than anything else. These… these people, if they went through channels, they would have to go several levels up the hierarchy, and down again, and they… they couldn't talk to each other, but they could talk to me, and then I could talk to the people in the other group, and so I… and so I… I could provide a valuable service to Burroughs, and they… they would pay me, I think, you know… I think I was getting $5 an hour, or $7 an hour – considered high at the time – but it had no medical benefits or anything associated with it, so from their point of view they were getting… they were getting a good deal too.
And… and one of my roles was to check out the designs of the engineers, and see if there were any mistakes in them before they… before they would… before they would build the machine. They… they would first take their designs and put them through a computer program to see if they would simulate, and… and apparently work correctly, but then, after they thought it was working correctly, then they would show it to me, and I still found several hundred errors in the design that… that I was able to catch… well, you know, in very weird cases that could come up, but hadn't arisen during the simulations, so that the… the expensive corrections to the hardware weren't necessary. You know, really my role in that time… well, then communication and… and trying to find errors… trying to… you know, if… if I could look at somebody else's program, or design, and couldn't find any mistakes in it, it was a rare event, and I would feel bad. I mean finding errors was my… was the big treat for me in those… in those days, so far as my… my work in computers was concerned.
- published: 03 Mar 2016
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1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
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- Duration: 13:50
- Updated: 06 Jul 2016
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A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a...
A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a historical view of this early machine's creation. Burroughs Corporation was merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation. Information courtesy of Unisys Archives, Charles Babbage Institute, and Bitsavers.org. Provided for non-commercial use only. Educational reference material. Runtime: 13 mins.
Published with permission under the Creative Commons License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The B6500 was a successor to the B5500 Computer, and was upgraded to the B6700 Computer in the field. We hope you enjoy this brief walk down "memory lane" during the highly competitive mainframe computer marketplace of the mid 1960's.
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A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data Processing System. With very minor restorations, this clip provides a historical view of this early machine's creation. Burroughs Corporation was merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986 to form Unisys Corporation. Information courtesy of Unisys Archives, Charles Babbage Institute, and Bitsavers.org. Provided for non-commercial use only. Educational reference material. Runtime: 13 mins.
Published with permission under the Creative Commons License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The B6500 was a successor to the B5500 Computer, and was upgraded to the B6700 Computer in the field. We hope you enjoy this brief walk down "memory lane" during the highly competitive mainframe computer marketplace of the mid 1960's.
- published: 06 Jul 2016
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Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
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- Duration: 26:07
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"On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system.
Excellent footage of computers and data processing...
more at http://computers.quickfound.net/
"On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system.
Excellent footage of computers and data processing.
Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management"
Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Development_Corporation
System Development Corporation (SDC), based in Santa Monica, California, was considered the world's first computer software company.
SDC started in 1955 as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at the RAND Corporation. RAND spun off the group in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems.
SDC became for-profit in 1969. With that change, it began to offer its services to all comers rather than only to the American military.
In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation. In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709
The IBM 709 was an early computer system introduced by IBM in August 1958. It was an improved version of the IBM 704 and the second member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The IBM 709 added overlapped input/output, indirect addressing, and three "convert" instructions (which provided support for decimal arithmetic, leading zero suppression, and several other operations). The 709 had 32,768 words of 36-bit memory and could execute 42,000 add or subtract instructions or 5000 multiplies per second.
An optional hardware emulator executed legacy IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709. This was the first commercially available emulator prior to 1960. Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware. Complex 704 instructions such as floating point trap and input-output routines were emulated in 709 software.
The 709 was built using vacuum tubes. IBM introduced a transistorized version of the 709, called the IBM 7090, in November 1959.
The FORTRAN Assembly Program was first introduced for the 709.
Registers
The IBM 709 had a 38 bit accumulator, a 36 bit multiplier quotient register, and three 15 bit index registers whose contents were subtracted from the base address instead of being added to it. Addition could be performed using two's complement arithmetic and instructions were provided for this purpose. All three index registers could participate in an instruction: the 3 bit tag field in the instruction was a bit map specifying which of the registers would participate in the operation, however if more than one index register was specified, their contents were combined by a logical or operation, not addition.
Instruction and data formats
There were five instruction formats, referred to as Types A, B,C, D and E. Most instructions were of type B.
Type A instructions had, in sequence, a three bit prefix (instruction code), a 15 bit decrement field, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field. They were conditional jump operations based on the values in the decrement registers specified in the tag field. Some also subtracted the decrement field from the contents of the index registers. The implementation required that the second two bits of the instruction code be non-zero, giving a total of six possible type A instructions. One (STR, instruction code binary 101) was not implemented until the IBM 709.
Type B instructions had, in sequence, a 12 bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a two bit flag field, four unused bits, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field.
Types C, D and E were used for specialized instructions...
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more at http://computers.quickfound.net/
"On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system.
Excellent footage of computers and data processing.
Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management"
Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Development_Corporation
System Development Corporation (SDC), based in Santa Monica, California, was considered the world's first computer software company.
SDC started in 1955 as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at the RAND Corporation. RAND spun off the group in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems.
SDC became for-profit in 1969. With that change, it began to offer its services to all comers rather than only to the American military.
In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation. In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709
The IBM 709 was an early computer system introduced by IBM in August 1958. It was an improved version of the IBM 704 and the second member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The IBM 709 added overlapped input/output, indirect addressing, and three "convert" instructions (which provided support for decimal arithmetic, leading zero suppression, and several other operations). The 709 had 32,768 words of 36-bit memory and could execute 42,000 add or subtract instructions or 5000 multiplies per second.
An optional hardware emulator executed legacy IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709. This was the first commercially available emulator prior to 1960. Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware. Complex 704 instructions such as floating point trap and input-output routines were emulated in 709 software.
The 709 was built using vacuum tubes. IBM introduced a transistorized version of the 709, called the IBM 7090, in November 1959.
The FORTRAN Assembly Program was first introduced for the 709.
Registers
The IBM 709 had a 38 bit accumulator, a 36 bit multiplier quotient register, and three 15 bit index registers whose contents were subtracted from the base address instead of being added to it. Addition could be performed using two's complement arithmetic and instructions were provided for this purpose. All three index registers could participate in an instruction: the 3 bit tag field in the instruction was a bit map specifying which of the registers would participate in the operation, however if more than one index register was specified, their contents were combined by a logical or operation, not addition.
Instruction and data formats
There were five instruction formats, referred to as Types A, B,C, D and E. Most instructions were of type B.
Type A instructions had, in sequence, a three bit prefix (instruction code), a 15 bit decrement field, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field. They were conditional jump operations based on the values in the decrement registers specified in the tag field. Some also subtracted the decrement field from the contents of the index registers. The implementation required that the second two bits of the instruction code be non-zero, giving a total of six possible type A instructions. One (STR, instruction code binary 101) was not implemented until the IBM 709.
Type B instructions had, in sequence, a 12 bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a two bit flag field, four unused bits, a 3 bit tag field, and a 15 bit address field.
Types C, D and E were used for specialized instructions...
- published: 22 Aug 2012
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Borroughs Museum Highlight Video
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This video highlights some of Borroughs' Museum Storage Solutions. Featuring textile storage, heavy-duty shelving, high density drawers, coroplast drawers and a...
This video highlights some of Borroughs' Museum Storage Solutions. Featuring textile storage, heavy-duty shelving, high density drawers, coroplast drawers and art racks.
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Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
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Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs...
Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite. Check out his visits to the ASICS America headquarters where he gave his input, and talked about what it means for him to be an athlete getting his own signature shoe for the first time.
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Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to design his perfect wrestling shoe: the all-new ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite. Check out his visits to the ASICS America headquarters where he gave his input, and talked about what it means for him to be an athlete getting his own signature shoe for the first time.
- published: 17 Jul 2013
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A Day In the Life of Jordan Burroughs
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 14 Mar 2016
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ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first tim...
ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first time father. Watch this intimate look at the private life of one of the top athletes in the world: from mowing the lawn, to a tour of his closet filled with his favorite shoes, and some insight into what his accomplishments truly mean to him and where his life has led him. This is the story of a good man who dedicated his life to greatness - both in and out of the ring.
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ASICS elite wrestler Jordan Burroughs is more than just a powerhouse in the wrestling ring - he's a devoted husband, a homeowner, and most recently, a first time father. Watch this intimate look at the private life of one of the top athletes in the world: from mowing the lawn, to a tour of his closet filled with his favorite shoes, and some insight into what his accomplishments truly mean to him and where his life has led him. This is the story of a good man who dedicated his life to greatness - both in and out of the ring.
- published: 14 Mar 2016
- views: 18913
Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
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- Duration: 99:08
- Updated: 27 Aug 2013
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Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Posted: Aug 27, 2013
Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
In 1963, th...
Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Posted: Aug 27, 2013
Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power.
The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical "shield" against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War tensions emerged impressive technical advances in hardware and software systems design, real-time control, and air traffic monitoring.
Advances such as the light gun, modems, duplex CPUs, multiprocessing, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, as well as networking arose as ancillary technologies of SAGE development. But did SAGE really work as advertised? Should we care? This lecture reflects on these questions, SAGE's context, and its technical spinoffs.
The lecture takes place in front of 400 square feet of actual SAGE hardware, including Weapons Director and Intercept Technician consoles! This equipment is from the last functioning SAGE center in North Bay, Ontario (Canada), decommissioned in 1982. The USAF SAGE Film "In Your Defense" will also be shown. "I like Ike" buttons optional.
The Speakers:
This lecture's speakers represent a variety of perspectives, from the history of technology, to hardware and software systems engineering:
Les Earnest: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University, Project Engineer and System Designer, SAGE system hardware. Founding President, Imagen Corporation; former Associate Chairman, Stanford University Computer Science Department; Executive Officer, Stanford AI Lab; Department Head, Information Systems Dept, MITRE Corporation; Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory... and inventor of the original (DEC-10/20) FINGER program!
James Wong: Computer Systems Engineer, Burroughs Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Project Engineer on SAGE system software for The RAND Corporation 1955-1963; Team Leader, System Development Corporation (SDC), Lincoln Laboratory, SAGE and Project "465-L." Mathematician and programmer for the IBM CPC, 701, and RAND Johnniac. Wong is retired and currently volunteers as an instructor in Mathematics with the Learning Disabled Program at Foothill College.
Paul Edwards: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University; author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America." Edwards has also authored dozens of articles on the history of computing and has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Michigan and UC - Santa Cruz. His next book is entitled: "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics." Edwards will be making a 30-minute presentation.
This talk was sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun Microsystems.
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Recorded: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Posted: Aug 27, 2013
Location: The Computer Museum History Center, Building 126, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
In 1963, the last of 22 SAGE command centers was completed by contractors IBM, Western Electric, The RAND Corporation, and Burroughs. At a cost of $8 billion (1964 dollars), this vastly complex technological system, an outgrowth of MIT Lincoln Labs' Whirlwind II computer, represented the state of the art in strategic doctrine and computer systems design. Each one of the 22 SAGE command centers used over 49,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 250 tons, and consumed 3,000,000 watts of power.
The SAGE system linked these command centers into a technopolitical "shield" against Soviet strategic bomber attack. From a stark social context of high Cold War tensions emerged impressive technical advances in hardware and software systems design, real-time control, and air traffic monitoring.
Advances such as the light gun, modems, duplex CPUs, multiprocessing, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, as well as networking arose as ancillary technologies of SAGE development. But did SAGE really work as advertised? Should we care? This lecture reflects on these questions, SAGE's context, and its technical spinoffs.
The lecture takes place in front of 400 square feet of actual SAGE hardware, including Weapons Director and Intercept Technician consoles! This equipment is from the last functioning SAGE center in North Bay, Ontario (Canada), decommissioned in 1982. The USAF SAGE Film "In Your Defense" will also be shown. "I like Ike" buttons optional.
The Speakers:
This lecture's speakers represent a variety of perspectives, from the history of technology, to hardware and software systems engineering:
Les Earnest: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University, Project Engineer and System Designer, SAGE system hardware. Founding President, Imagen Corporation; former Associate Chairman, Stanford University Computer Science Department; Executive Officer, Stanford AI Lab; Department Head, Information Systems Dept, MITRE Corporation; Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory... and inventor of the original (DEC-10/20) FINGER program!
James Wong: Computer Systems Engineer, Burroughs Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Project Engineer on SAGE system software for The RAND Corporation 1955-1963; Team Leader, System Development Corporation (SDC), Lincoln Laboratory, SAGE and Project "465-L." Mathematician and programmer for the IBM CPC, 701, and RAND Johnniac. Wong is retired and currently volunteers as an instructor in Mathematics with the Learning Disabled Program at Foothill College.
Paul Edwards: Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University; author of "The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America." Edwards has also authored dozens of articles on the history of computing and has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Cornell, the University of Michigan and UC - Santa Cruz. His next book is entitled: "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics." Edwards will be making a 30-minute presentation.
This talk was sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun Microsystems.
- published: 27 Aug 2013
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The Power to Serve, A Presentation of Burroughs Corporation (1956)
2015.011.012 16mm black and white promotional film about the Burroughs Corporation, entitled "The Power to Serve." The film covers the company's scope, its history, its products, and its principles. The film features a montage of shots of the exteriors of the company's facilities in Detroit; Plymouth; Los Angeles, California; Rochester, New York; Plainfield, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Park Ridge, New Jersey; Windsor, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario; Patin, France; Gennevilliers, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nottingham, England; Strathleven, Scotland; Dallas, Texas; Dearborn; and Paris, France. The company's workers are also show working in its various departments. The portion concerning the company's beginnings with William Seward Burroughs at J. Boyer in St. Lou... -
Burroughs B6500 Status Report
A film by Burroughs Corporation circa March 1969 outlining the status of their project to develop a new family of large scale systems, the B6500. This system was later field-upgraded to the B6700. The encoding from CBI. I've never got videos to play from their website so hosting here; this can be removed eventually.
The Power to Serve, A Presentation of Burroughs Corporation (1956)
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- Duration: 26:45
- Updated: 08 Jul 2016
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2015.011.012
16mm black and white promotional film about the Burroughs Corporation, entitled "The Power to Serve." The film covers the company's scope, its his...
2015.011.012
16mm black and white promotional film about the Burroughs Corporation, entitled "The Power to Serve." The film covers the company's scope, its history, its products, and its principles. The film features a montage of shots of the exteriors of the company's facilities in Detroit; Plymouth; Los Angeles, California; Rochester, New York; Plainfield, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Park Ridge, New Jersey; Windsor, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario; Patin, France; Gennevilliers, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nottingham, England; Strathleven, Scotland; Dallas, Texas; Dearborn; and Paris, France. The company's workers are also show working in its various departments. The portion concerning the company's beginnings with William Seward Burroughs at J. Boyer in St. Louis includes a re-enactment partially shot at the Detroit Historical Museum's Streets of Old Detroit. The portion also emphasizes the introduction of income tax laws as helping the business to grow.
The film features a variety of Burroughs's products both mechanical and electronic. The film moves from discussing early book keeping machines, portable adding machines, calculators, typewriter accounting machines to the company's modern ten key adding machines. The company's electronic research and development process and products are also detailed. The Sensatronic, a ledger machine uses magnetic strips on ledgers; the Sensamatic, accounting machine that outputs punched tape; a data processing system that utilizes character recognition; the Bankomatic, a check coding and Sorting machine using fluorescent marks, the Burroughs E101 computer. and the G101 data processing machine which prints information from punched cards; the Ticketeer ticket printing machine; and the Burroughs Micro-Twin microfilming machine are each highlighted. The film also lists the company's acquired by Burroughs and the products they consequently expanded into such as ink ribbons, carbon paper, business forms, check protectors and endorses, and small business accounting supplies. The film also discusses Burroughs's involvement in national defense. Navigational instruments for aircraft, controls for naval guns, missile components, anti-aircraft gun computers, high altitude bombing systems, and computers for SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) are listed as their contributions in this area.
Throughout the film, women are featured among the workers manufacturing Burroughs's production, and operating their business machines.
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2015.011.012
16mm black and white promotional film about the Burroughs Corporation, entitled "The Power to Serve." The film covers the company's scope, its history, its products, and its principles. The film features a montage of shots of the exteriors of the company's facilities in Detroit; Plymouth; Los Angeles, California; Rochester, New York; Plainfield, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Park Ridge, New Jersey; Windsor, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario; Patin, France; Gennevilliers, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nottingham, England; Strathleven, Scotland; Dallas, Texas; Dearborn; and Paris, France. The company's workers are also show working in its various departments. The portion concerning the company's beginnings with William Seward Burroughs at J. Boyer in St. Louis includes a re-enactment partially shot at the Detroit Historical Museum's Streets of Old Detroit. The portion also emphasizes the introduction of income tax laws as helping the business to grow.
The film features a variety of Burroughs's products both mechanical and electronic. The film moves from discussing early book keeping machines, portable adding machines, calculators, typewriter accounting machines to the company's modern ten key adding machines. The company's electronic research and development process and products are also detailed. The Sensatronic, a ledger machine uses magnetic strips on ledgers; the Sensamatic, accounting machine that outputs punched tape; a data processing system that utilizes character recognition; the Bankomatic, a check coding and Sorting machine using fluorescent marks, the Burroughs E101 computer. and the G101 data processing machine which prints information from punched cards; the Ticketeer ticket printing machine; and the Burroughs Micro-Twin microfilming machine are each highlighted. The film also lists the company's acquired by Burroughs and the products they consequently expanded into such as ink ribbons, carbon paper, business forms, check protectors and endorses, and small business accounting supplies. The film also discusses Burroughs's involvement in national defense. Navigational instruments for aircraft, controls for naval guns, missile components, anti-aircraft gun computers, high altitude bombing systems, and computers for SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) are listed as their contributions in this area.
Throughout the film, women are featured among the workers manufacturing Burroughs's production, and operating their business machines.
- published: 08 Jul 2016
- views: 5
Burroughs B6500 Status Report
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- Duration: 13:41
- Updated: 09 Aug 2015
- views: 92
A film by Burroughs Corporation circa March 1969 outlining the status of their project to develop a new family of large scale systems, the B6500. This system wa...
A film by Burroughs Corporation circa March 1969 outlining the status of their project to develop a new family of large scale systems, the B6500. This system was later field-upgraded to the B6700.
The encoding from CBI. I've never got videos to play from their website so hosting here; this can be removed eventually.
wn.com/Burroughs B6500 Status Report
A film by Burroughs Corporation circa March 1969 outlining the status of their project to develop a new family of large scale systems, the B6500. This system was later field-upgraded to the B6700.
The encoding from CBI. I've never got videos to play from their website so hosting here; this can be removed eventually.
- published: 09 Aug 2015
- views: 92
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Rudy Cola's Career Interview
An interview with Rudy Cola about his career with Burroughs Corporation. Rudy was a Physicist with Burroughs who had an incredible career working on cutting-edge technologies during a very important time in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. -
Tom Martin, UW Medicine
Tom Martin's career originally took a fairly traditional path. His first job with Burroughs Corporation reinforced his love of technology. His next move to Andersen Consulting further cemented his talents in implementing technology towards business improvements and his joy of the intensity that senior level consulting required. Then, in a surprise move, he jumped off the partner track and became the Director of Systems Development for UW Medical Centers. He is now the CIO for UW Medicine. -
OSHUG 39 — OpenHPSDR Update, John Melton
** Recording from a joint OSHUG & BCS Open Source Specialist Group meeting, London, 19th March 2015. A review of hardware and software progress of the High Performance Software Define Radio, an open source hardware and software project being developed by an international group of ham radio enthusiasts. John Melton has held a ham radio license since 1984 and has developed several open source Linux applications, including ground station software for working digital satellites and software defined radios. He is a retired software engineer after 48 years developing software for several computer manufacturers including Burroughs Corporation, ICL, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation. -
Oral History of Evelyn Berezin
Interviewed by Gardner Hendrie on March 10, 2014 in New York, New York, X7126.2014 © Computer History Museum Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925. In 1951, she joined a start-up company, Elecom, based in Brooklyn, which had started to build digital computers. From 1951 to 1969, she worked at a number of companies designing a variety of special-purpose computer systems. While working for Teleregister in 1962, Berezin designed one of the largest systems built at that time: a passenger reservations system for United Airlines. The design of the central system (three independent, linked processors) served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time and with no central system failures in 11 years of operation. In 1969, Berezin founded her own company: ... -
Craig Ferguson Final Show - Starring Jay LENO [HD] Fantastic
Craig Ferguson Final Show - Starring Jay LENO HD] Fantastic Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital, in the Springburn district of Glasgow to Robert and Janet Ferguson, on 17 May 1962, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied". He was raised Scottish Presbyterian.When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School.At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation. His first visit to the Un... -
Grid Runners Film Completo
di Andrew Stevens , con Don The Dragon Wilson , Michael Bernardo , Athena Massey , Dawn Ann Billings , USA 1996 La Burtech Corporation del miliardario Burroughs sta per rivoluzionare il mercato dell'informatica grazie al programma realizzato dal dottor Cameron che clona i personaggi di giochi virtuali trasformandoli in persone reali. Con una spesa cospicua chiunque potrà portarsi a casa in carne ed ossa Liana e Greta, le due protagoniste di un "cybersex game" che incontra già molto successo, e, anche se per il momento il progetto è in fase sperimentale, per la Burtech Corporation si prospettano affari d'oro. -
Jungle Deep Podcast, Episode 9, Tarzan's Corporation
More at www.JungleDeep.org. Jungle Deep (audio) podcast, Episode 9. Take a look inside the company charged with protecting and promoting the Tarzan character, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. President Jim Sullos, discusses copyrights and trademarks, Tarzan events, books, comics, and movies. Learn about what is coming up in the world of Tarzan. "Tarzan the Eco-Warrior? Jane with an iPod? Little known story and character points are revealed. Much fun!
Rudy Cola's Career Interview
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- Duration: 71:50
- Updated: 30 Jan 2016
- views: 42
An interview with Rudy Cola about his career with Burroughs Corporation. Rudy was a Physicist with Burroughs who had an incredible career working on cutting-ed...
An interview with Rudy Cola about his career with Burroughs Corporation. Rudy was a Physicist with Burroughs who had an incredible career working on cutting-edge technologies during a very important time in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.
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An interview with Rudy Cola about his career with Burroughs Corporation. Rudy was a Physicist with Burroughs who had an incredible career working on cutting-edge technologies during a very important time in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.
- published: 30 Jan 2016
- views: 42
Tom Martin, UW Medicine
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- Duration: 56:19
- Updated: 10 Jul 2014
- views: 16
Tom Martin's career originally took a fairly traditional path. His first job with Burroughs Corporation reinforced his love of technology. His next move to Ande...
Tom Martin's career originally took a fairly traditional path. His first job with Burroughs Corporation reinforced his love of technology. His next move to Andersen Consulting further cemented his talents in implementing technology towards business improvements and his joy of the intensity that senior level consulting required. Then, in a surprise move, he jumped off the partner track and became the Director of Systems Development for UW Medical Centers. He is now the CIO for UW Medicine.
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Tom Martin's career originally took a fairly traditional path. His first job with Burroughs Corporation reinforced his love of technology. His next move to Andersen Consulting further cemented his talents in implementing technology towards business improvements and his joy of the intensity that senior level consulting required. Then, in a surprise move, he jumped off the partner track and became the Director of Systems Development for UW Medical Centers. He is now the CIO for UW Medicine.
- published: 10 Jul 2014
- views: 16
OSHUG 39 — OpenHPSDR Update, John Melton
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- Duration: 28:04
- Updated: 01 Dec 2015
- views: 38
** Recording from a joint OSHUG & BCS Open Source Specialist Group meeting, London, 19th March 2015.
A review of hardware and software progress of the High Per...
** Recording from a joint OSHUG & BCS Open Source Specialist Group meeting, London, 19th March 2015.
A review of hardware and software progress of the High Performance Software Define Radio, an open source hardware and software project being developed by an international group of ham radio enthusiasts.
John Melton has held a ham radio license since 1984 and has developed several open source Linux applications, including ground station software for working digital satellites and software defined radios. He is a retired software engineer after 48 years developing software for several computer manufacturers including Burroughs Corporation, ICL, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.
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** Recording from a joint OSHUG & BCS Open Source Specialist Group meeting, London, 19th March 2015.
A review of hardware and software progress of the High Performance Software Define Radio, an open source hardware and software project being developed by an international group of ham radio enthusiasts.
John Melton has held a ham radio license since 1984 and has developed several open source Linux applications, including ground station software for working digital satellites and software defined radios. He is a retired software engineer after 48 years developing software for several computer manufacturers including Burroughs Corporation, ICL, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.
- published: 01 Dec 2015
- views: 38
Oral History of Evelyn Berezin
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- Duration: 194:05
- Updated: 08 Apr 2015
- views: 699
Interviewed by Gardner Hendrie on March 10, 2014 in New York, New York, X7126.2014
© Computer History Museum
Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925....
Interviewed by Gardner Hendrie on March 10, 2014 in New York, New York, X7126.2014
© Computer History Museum
Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925. In 1951, she joined a start-up company, Elecom, based in Brooklyn, which had started to build digital computers. From 1951 to 1969, she worked at a number of companies designing a variety of special-purpose computer systems.
While working for Teleregister in 1962, Berezin designed one of the largest systems built at that time: a passenger reservations system for United Airlines. The design of the central system (three independent, linked processors) served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time and with no central system failures in 11 years of operation.
In 1969, Berezin founded her own company: Redactron, a new maker of word processors. Redactron moved into its first building in December 1969. Redactron's first word processors were delivered in September 1971-one and a half years after the company was started with only nine people. A worldwide marketing organization was set up as well as a service organization, and Redactron grew. In 1975, it employed just under 500 people. Redactron was sold in 1976 to the Burroughs Corporation.
Berezin has served on Boards of a number of public companies, including CIGNA, Koppers Co., Datapoint, and Standard Microsystems. Additionally, she has worked as Advisor or Board member with about 20 start-up technology companies. Berezin is currently on the Board of Directors of the Stony Brook (University) Foundation and is a member of the Oversight Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU.
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
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Interviewed by Gardner Hendrie on March 10, 2014 in New York, New York, X7126.2014
© Computer History Museum
Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925. In 1951, she joined a start-up company, Elecom, based in Brooklyn, which had started to build digital computers. From 1951 to 1969, she worked at a number of companies designing a variety of special-purpose computer systems.
While working for Teleregister in 1962, Berezin designed one of the largest systems built at that time: a passenger reservations system for United Airlines. The design of the central system (three independent, linked processors) served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time and with no central system failures in 11 years of operation.
In 1969, Berezin founded her own company: Redactron, a new maker of word processors. Redactron moved into its first building in December 1969. Redactron's first word processors were delivered in September 1971-one and a half years after the company was started with only nine people. A worldwide marketing organization was set up as well as a service organization, and Redactron grew. In 1975, it employed just under 500 people. Redactron was sold in 1976 to the Burroughs Corporation.
Berezin has served on Boards of a number of public companies, including CIGNA, Koppers Co., Datapoint, and Standard Microsystems. Additionally, she has worked as Advisor or Board member with about 20 start-up technology companies. Berezin is currently on the Board of Directors of the Stony Brook (University) Foundation and is a member of the Oversight Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU.
Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.
- published: 08 Apr 2015
- views: 699
Craig Ferguson Final Show - Starring Jay LENO [HD] Fantastic
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- Duration: 37:14
- Updated: 12 Jul 2015
- views: 373
Craig Ferguson Final Show -
Starring Jay LENO
HD] Fantastic
Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital, in the Springburn district of Glasgow to Robert and Jane...
Craig Ferguson Final Show -
Starring Jay LENO
HD] Fantastic
Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital, in the Springburn district of Glasgow to Robert and Janet Ferguson, on 17 May 1962, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied".
He was raised Scottish Presbyterian.When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld.
They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II.
Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School.At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
His first visit to the United States was in 1975 when he was 13 to visit an uncle who lived on Long Island, near New York City.
When he moved to New York City in 1983, he worked in construction in Harlem. Ferguson later became a bouncer at the nightclub Save the Robots.
Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York.
His homemaker mother, Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993), was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11.
His father, Angelo (1910–1994), was an insurance salesman who was born in New York to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy.
Leno grew up in Ballardvale, Massachusetts, and obtained a bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973.
His older brother, Patrick (May 12, 1940 - October 6, 2002), was a Vietnam War veteran who worked as an attorney.
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Craig Ferguson Final Show -
Starring Jay LENO
HD] Fantastic
Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital, in the Springburn district of Glasgow to Robert and Janet Ferguson, on 17 May 1962, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied".
He was raised Scottish Presbyterian.When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld.
They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II.
Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School.At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
His first visit to the United States was in 1975 when he was 13 to visit an uncle who lived on Long Island, near New York City.
When he moved to New York City in 1983, he worked in construction in Harlem. Ferguson later became a bouncer at the nightclub Save the Robots.
Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York.
His homemaker mother, Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993), was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11.
His father, Angelo (1910–1994), was an insurance salesman who was born in New York to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy.
Leno grew up in Ballardvale, Massachusetts, and obtained a bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973.
His older brother, Patrick (May 12, 1940 - October 6, 2002), was a Vietnam War veteran who worked as an attorney.
- published: 12 Jul 2015
- views: 373
Grid Runners Film Completo
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- Duration: 87:10
- Updated: 28 Jun 2016
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di Andrew Stevens , con Don The Dragon Wilson , Michael Bernardo , Athena Massey , Dawn Ann Billings , USA 1996
La Burtech Corporation del miliardario Burrou...
di Andrew Stevens , con Don The Dragon Wilson , Michael Bernardo , Athena Massey , Dawn Ann Billings , USA 1996
La Burtech Corporation del miliardario Burroughs sta per rivoluzionare il mercato dell'informatica grazie al programma realizzato dal dottor Cameron che clona i personaggi di giochi virtuali trasformandoli in persone reali. Con una spesa cospicua chiunque potrà portarsi a casa in carne ed ossa Liana e Greta, le due protagoniste di un "cybersex game" che incontra già molto successo, e, anche se per il momento il progetto è in fase sperimentale, per la Burtech Corporation si prospettano affari d'oro.
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di Andrew Stevens , con Don The Dragon Wilson , Michael Bernardo , Athena Massey , Dawn Ann Billings , USA 1996
La Burtech Corporation del miliardario Burroughs sta per rivoluzionare il mercato dell'informatica grazie al programma realizzato dal dottor Cameron che clona i personaggi di giochi virtuali trasformandoli in persone reali. Con una spesa cospicua chiunque potrà portarsi a casa in carne ed ossa Liana e Greta, le due protagoniste di un "cybersex game" che incontra già molto successo, e, anche se per il momento il progetto è in fase sperimentale, per la Burtech Corporation si prospettano affari d'oro.
- published: 28 Jun 2016
- views: 91
Jungle Deep Podcast, Episode 9, Tarzan's Corporation
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- Duration: 37:18
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
- views: 75
More at www.JungleDeep.org. Jungle Deep (audio) podcast, Episode 9. Take a look inside the company charged with protecting and promoting the Tarzan character, E...
More at www.JungleDeep.org. Jungle Deep (audio) podcast, Episode 9. Take a look inside the company charged with protecting and promoting the Tarzan character, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. President Jim Sullos, discusses copyrights and trademarks, Tarzan events, books, comics, and movies. Learn about what is coming up in the world of Tarzan. "Tarzan the Eco-Warrior? Jane with an iPod? Little known story and character points are revealed. Much fun!
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More at www.JungleDeep.org. Jungle Deep (audio) podcast, Episode 9. Take a look inside the company charged with protecting and promoting the Tarzan character, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. President Jim Sullos, discusses copyrights and trademarks, Tarzan events, books, comics, and movies. Learn about what is coming up in the world of Tarzan. "Tarzan the Eco-Warrior? Jane with an iPod? Little known story and character points are revealed. Much fun!
- published: 23 Oct 2012
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Donald Knuth - Burroughs Corporation (29/97)
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Burroughs Adding Machine History
The Power to Serve is the PR film chronicling the Detroit based, Burroughs company that in...
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Donald Knuth - Writing a compiler for the Burroughs Corporation (27/97)
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Donald Knuth - Working for the Burroughs Corporation (28/97)
TRANSCRIPT: I got to Caltech as a student… a grad student in mathematics. Again I was scar...
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1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
A vintage 1969 Burroughs Corporation briefing on the status of the B6500 Electronic Data P...
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1969 Burroughs B6500 Computer - Vintage Mainframe History - UNISYS Sperry Film
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Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
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Computer Classic: "System Technology" circa 1960 System Development Corporation
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Borroughs Museum Highlight Video
This video highlights some of Borroughs' Museum Storage Solutions. Featuring textile stora...
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Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
Elite ASICS wrestler Jordan Burroughs recently worked with our product development team to...
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Designing the ASICS Jordan Burroughs Elite Wrestling Shoe
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A Day In the Life of Jordan Burroughs
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Vigilance and Vacuum Tubes: The Sage System, 1956-1963
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The Power to Serve, A Presentation of Burroughs Corporation (1956)
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Burroughs B6500 Status Report
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Rudy Cola's Career Interview
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Tom Martin, UW Medicine
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OSHUG 39 — OpenHPSDR Update, John Melton
** Recording from a joint OSHUG & BCS Open Source Specialist Group meeting, London, 19th M...
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Megachurch Pastor Says He'd Vote For Trump Over Jesus
Edit WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2016
government should not be based on Christian principles.“Nowhere is government told to forgive those who wrong it, nowhere is government told to turn the other cheek,” Jeffress said. “Government is to be a strongman to protect its citizens against evildoers....
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Trump Appears “Clueless” How He Could Win With This VP Pick
Edit WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2016
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIn speaking with and listening to Americans across the country, when it comes to this year’s U.S. election cycle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton they’re definitely not clueless about one important issue ... Also on the short list are Govs. Mike Pence of Indiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey ... He should also probably choose an individual other than an elderly white male....
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Pakistan Taliban Leader Khalifa Umar Mansoor Killed In US Drone Strike
Edit WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2016
A US drone strike has killed the mastermind responsible for the 2014 attack on a Pakistani school resulting in the death of 150 people, The Associated Press reported.A US Army general confirmed the death of Taliban leader Khalifa Umar Mansoor in a phone call to Pakistan’s army chief Raheel Sharif, Pakistan army spokesman Asim Bajwa said. No information was given on where or when the drone strike took place....
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New British PM Theresa May Names Boris Johnson Foreign Secretary
Edit WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2016
New British Prime Minister Theresa May spent a whirlwind day meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, accepting the right to form a new government and naming a new cabinet to serve in her government.May named former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who led the Brexit campaign, foreign secretary. Johnson replaces Philip Hammond, who becomes chancellor....
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[VIDEO]: Trump VP Field To Me Is Two, But Still Considering Three To Four
Edit WorldNews.com 14 Jul 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier Wednesday he’s narrowed down the list of people he’s considering for his running mate to three or four people, but in his own mind, that number is even smaller, Politico reported Wednesday.Trump was asked by Baier if he has winnowed that number to two finalists. "I am narrowing it down. I mean, I’m at three, potentially four ... Chris Christie....
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Marriott TownePlace Suites opens
Edit Times Union 14 Jul 2016
Colonie. The ribbon was cut Tuesday on a TownePlace Suites by Marriott, a 114-suite hotel four miles from Albany International Airport. Designed for long-term travelers, it has studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites with kitchens. Rooms start at about $116 a night and amenities include an indoor pool, fitness room and 24-hour market. — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs ... ....
Baseball: El Camino Real, Birmingham advance to VIBL championship game
Edit The Los Angeles Times 14 Jul 2016Rio 2016 Olympics: Inside the Outsider Narsingh Yadav
Edit Indian Express 14 Jul 2016
A decision made in courts may well be debated if Jordan Burroughs, Aniuar Geduev impose their might on the 74 kg men’s freestyle and relegate Narsingh Yadav to outside the podium but there’s no dearth of confidence ... rebuke awaited him after finishing 5th at the World Championships in 2013 – incidentally a loss to world champ Jordan Burroughs....
NEC Trials Cashless Payment by Facial Recognition (NEC Corporation of America)
Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
NEC Corporation of America). Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016 -NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE ... Fumiaki Matsubara, senior vice president, NEC Corporation said, 'This trial will enable us to improve technological performance and to accumulate knowledge towards the commercialization of facial authentication-based payment services, thereby helping NEC to enhance FinTech services and ensure greater safety and security.' ... About NEC Corporation....
Playing with the lives of children
Edit The Times of India 14 Jul 2016
Every morning, Chandini, a teacher at the corporation's nursery school in Kamaleswaram picks up concrete pieces which fall off from the roof, shovels it off and waits for the kids to arrive ... They don't have much to hope for as the corporation responsible for maintenance has been caught in a legal tiff with Irumkulangara Durga Bhagavathy temple trust which had donated the land about five decades ago....
Groundwater Replenishment Scheme expansion (State Government of Western Australia)
Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
Water Minister Mia Davies said the first stage of the Water Corporation's Groundwater Replenishment Scheme in Craigie would begin recharging up to 14 billion litres of water each year into Perth's groundwater supplies by the end of the year ... 'Funding for the expansion will come from the corporation's existing capital works program and work will begin in March 2017.'....
4 places confirmed Press Conference, later cancelled, alleges IRF; venues refute claim
Edit DNA India 14 Jul 2016
The Sahil Hotel, however, denied getting any request from his team and said that it gives bookings only to corporates ... When asked that shouldn't the venue be relayed to the media only after paying charges, the team member said, "It was confirmed from their side via talks; only after that we informed the media." Corporate Communications from ITC Grand Central declined to comment....
Change in Substantial Holding (Poseidon Nickel Limited)
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Corporations Act 2001 Section 671B Notice of change of interests of substantial holder ... a corporation and its related corporations, or the manager and trustee of an equity trust), the names could be included in an annexure to the form ... See the definition of "associate" in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001. See the definition of "relevant interest" in sections 608 and 6718(7) of the Corporations Act 2001....
De La Paz elementary school receives AGAPP Silid Pangarap (Aboitiz Power Corporation)
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Aboitiz Power Corporation) ... The two-classroom AGAPP Silid Pangarap is the fruit of the partnership among Aboitiz Foundation, Aklat, Gabay, Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat at Pag-asa (AGAPP) Foundation, Aboitiz Power Corporation and its customer Wan Chiong Steel Corporation who has been instrumental in identifying De La Paz elementary school as the beneficiary school ... About Aboitiz Power Corporation....
Mitsubishi Chemical and Mitsui Zosen Machinery & Service to Form Tie-up to Produce and Sell Zeolite Membranes (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation)
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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation) 2010年1月12日 ... Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd ... Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC; Head office ... It has been adopted in the solvent collection system developed by Mitsubishi Chemical Engineering Corporation (MEC, Head office ... Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation TEL ... Public Relations Section, Corporate Planning Department,....
Balangir resident dies of dengue at SCB hosp
Edit The Times of India 14 Jul 2016
Cuttack ... The health officer of Cuttack municipal corporation (CMC) P K Pradhan said the corporation had drawn up a plan to conduct a door-to-survey in Jagatpur area to find out dengue patients and bring them to the health camp started there on Tuesday ... Now that dengue has reached an alarming proportion, the corporation officials are making tall claims to contain it, remarked L K Mohapatra, a lawyer of Jobra area ... RELATED....
A.P., marine varsity of St. Petersburg ink pact
Edit The Hindu 14 Jul 2016
Andhra Pradesh will soon have a world class maritime university if the efforts of the State bear fruit ... Chandrababu Naidu who visited St ... The university was working in close collaboration with the United Shipbuilding Corporation and Rosoboronexport ... United Shipbuilding corporation president Rakhamanov Alexey said the corporation was considering making Andhra Pradesh its headquarters since the State had unique marine activity ... ....
Nikon Introduces MONARCH HG Binoculars (Nikon Corporation)
Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
(Source. Nikon Corporation). Nikon Vision Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nikon Corporation, is pleased to announce the release of MONARCH HG binoculars 8x42 and 10x42 ... MONARCH HG binoculars are made in Japan, feature an innovated exterior and deliver the finest performance among MONARCH models ... equivalent ... MONARCH HG 8x42 ... Nikon Corporation published this content on 14 July 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....
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