Artifact Details

Title

Burroughs B5500 faceplate

Catalog Number

X1510.98C

Type

Physical object

Description

The Burroughs B5500 was an innovative, third-generation architecture employing parallelism and multiple I/O processors, allowing many operations to occur simultaneously. For the first time in a commercial machine, it introduced everal key concepts in computer architecture such as virtual memory, stack-based addressing, and multiprogramming. It ran such programming languages as Algol and COBOL and was popular in fininacial institutions such as banks.

Date

1964

Manufacturer

Burroughs Corporation

Place Manufactured

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

Model number B5500

Dimensions

2 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 1/4 in.

Category

Component/other

Lot Number

X1510.98A-C