Artifact Details

Title

Burroughs On-Line Disk File System for Data Storage and Data Communications

Catalog Number

102646217

Type

Document

Description

Four color brochure for the Burroughs On-Line Disk File System for Data Storage and Data Communications. The front cover has a series of grey concentric circles on a blue background. In the center is a black circle with the title in white. The sub-title, in blue, is written below and says, "A major breakthrough in performance and capacity for random access information storage, retrieval, and processing." Color and black and white images throughout the brochure show people, mostly women, either posing next to or working with the Disk File System. The B 5000 Information Processing System is pictured as is the B 280 Punched Card/Magnetic Tape EDP System. Small yellow free floating insert from the Vice President of Marketing thanking the customer for requesting information.

Date

1962

Publisher

Burroughs Corporation

Place of Publication

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

Other number 10001
Other number 3-8-6

Extent

6 p.

Dimensions

10 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.

Copyright Holder

Burroughs Corporation

Category

Promotional Material

Subject

promotional materials; Ken T. Bement, Vice President, Marketing; Business applications; Burroughs On-Line Disk File System; Burroughs Corporation

Credit

Gift of Thomas J. Buckholtz and Helen T. Buckholtz

Lot Number

X2592.2004