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Burroughs 1886
The Burroughs Corporation was founded in 1886 in St Louis, Missouri with the intention of selling William Seward Burroughs’ adding machine. It was then called the American Arithmometer Company. It moved to Detroit in 1904 and the name was changed to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. In 1953 the name was changed again to the Burroughs Corporation – they still sold adding machines, but were moving into the computer market, working with the military and the US Government.

Burroughs developed the Illiac IV, a large, one-off, high-speed computer.

In 1986 the Burroughs Corporation merged with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation.

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M261 Mathematics in Computing