Burroughs E6000

From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>
Date: Mon Oct 15 17:48:56 2001

Ah, yes, remember them well, and the mechanical B series they replaced; might even still have some parts and ledger cards... Those were the days, programming with metal punches and tweaking and debugging with a file... made great desks when they were scrapped...

But while on this topic, anybody out there doing anything with Burroughs L series or B80/90 systems? Have tossed most of it out, but still have some cards, manuals and a cassette drive with controller if anyone's at all interested.

And of course some paper and mylar tape stuff...

And some Burroughs calculator manuals, mechanical and electronic..

mike

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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:29:07 -0500
From: "Patrick L. Boland" <plboland_at_home.com>
Subject: Re: Burroughs E6000

As late as 1977 ! was using two Burroughs E6000 computers to perform the
function of loan payment application. The loans were for health club
membership in the Chicago area and a great deal of the rest of the upper
midwest area. We had over 50,000 loans outstanding at any time and
processed from 1,000 to 3,000 loan payments a day. The machines we had were
magnetic stripe ledger card readers and they would punch an output card
with the results of the processing of the transaction. The latest
information about the loan kept on a master deck of cards was replaced with
the card that was punched as a result of the transaction on the E6000. The
update was performed on a daily basis using the 085 sorter and a
reproducer/collater. During the last 8 to 12 months of the use of the
E6000, while a conversion was being worked on, we used only one E6000 and
kept the other one for spare parts. Burroughs had run out of spare parts.
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