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Computers can solve enormously complex problems in fractions of seconds, but sometimes it takes six months to feed in the information and instructions they need to do it. To pay a staff of highly trained technicians to lay out a program for the machine to follow can increase the purchase...
The B5000 can take problems either worked out in algebraic terms or stated in standard business English, in a few seconds translate them into computer language and go to work to solve them. Although other machines have been adapted to do this, Burroughs claims that the B5000 can work out...
Transformation. The B5000 is the most sophisticated commercial computer Burroughs has turned out in the short time it has been in the business. It came into being because President Eppert decided that computers were becoming too complex, that customers were waiting for something cheaper and simpler to operate. If he...
JOHN R. BURROUGHS
Despite a lot of talk about disappointing second-quarter earnings, many investors seemed to buy and sell for other reasons. The stocks of Budd, Goodrich. Liggett & Myers and American Steel Foundries, for example, all rose despite lower earnings reports. A.M.F., Burroughs, Crown Zellerbach, General Foods and Gillette all fell despite...