I remember the Burroughs name when it meant main frame computers, calculators and cash registers! Is that what the company finally settled down to become in this age? Do they make any business equipment any more?
Hopefully, more do than don't. I think the corruption is much more rampant at the larger size of company, where the flow of cash is larger and more corrupting. Succubus management thrives there.
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Hah! No, I just saw the sig. I didn't try to read the henscratch. That's a keeper, fer sher.
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Agree with you on that.
I'll confess to leaving the store with one big SEG that day...
No kidding. LOL.
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Not really. Sperry and Burroughs merged in the 1990's or so. The new company became Unisys. Both had a flavor of Mainframe, A Series and IX Series. Both product lines are made and sold today, though mostly as virtual machines. But about 4 - 5 years ago the Unisys Payment Systems Division was made a wholly owned subsidiary, AKA Unisys Payment Systems. Last year, Feb. 2010, we got sold. We got a new name BPS. We still have the Burroughs factory in Michigan. Unisys kept the mainframes, desktop services, storage devices, high end servers business. We sell (and make a few) financial products, check sorters, safes, printers, change dispensers, etc. We are starting to branch out from financial institutions to retail side with the safes.
So for those that check their accounts on line, there is a 75% chance my sorter took the picture of the check that you wrote.
Mike >
And if running on a burroughs system (v-series), it's likely running MCP code that I wrote. Was fun to watch 10 DP2500 sorters running at once.
scott
Is that a drive by?
Sterling Attitude!
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And the part that was sold to Xerox was dead in less than 5 years?
Nope, a full neener...
;-)
I wonder if they offer a 4" sawstop model...
with grantee top?
As long as it passes the nickel test.
Naw, those are walking minutes.
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Cool. Miniature saws at Festering prices!
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Shouldn't it pass the mini-nickel test?
Gets good reviews.
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