BURROUGHS CORPORATION

Burroughs Corporation manufactures business equipment and computers. It began with manufacturing mechanical adding machines, and later on it began to manufacture programmable ledgers, and then, computers. It produced of mainframe computers and related equipment such as typewriters and printers. It developed products such as the Burroughs large systems machines, the B2500 computers, the B20 and B25 lines with the Intel 8086/8088 family of 8-bit chips as the processor, the ILLIAC IV computer,  and other related products. It was one of the key computer companies in the United States. It merged with Sperry Corporation in 1986. Its payments division was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. Burroughs Corporation was established in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company.