Talk:Burroughs Corporation

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The use of the name "MCP" in Tron may indeed be very related to the Burroughs MCP. I was working in the Burrough's plant in Mission Viejo, California at the time the movie came out. At the time there were also Burroughs plants in Pasedena and Santa Barbara (all not far from Hollywood and Disney). I was told that one of the screenwriters was an ex-Burroughs employee (or a spouse of an employee?).

[edit] Third computer line

In addition to the two computer lines mentioned on the main page, I believe there was third. The plant in Pasedena, California produced a machine (referred to as "medium systems" in the early 1980's) that stored numbers in BCD notation, which apparently gave an advantage (at one time) in doing business calculations. This may well have originally been a company acquired Burroughs some years before.

All of this could use some verification...

-- PBannister (wikipedia login not working)

Could that be "ElectroData" rather than "ElectoData"?