The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company.In 1986, it merged with Sperry UNIVAC to form Unisys.The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing.At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into …

The Burroughs Large Systems Group produced a family of large 48-bit mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense syllables. The first machine in the family was the B5000 in 1961. It was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers. It evolved into the B5500. Subsequent major redesigns include the B6500/B6700 …

Tarzan è un personaggio immaginario inventato da Edgar Rice Burroughs.Rappresenta l'archetipo del bambino selvaggio allevato nella giungla dalle scimmie, che ritorna in seguito alla civilizzazione solo per rifiutarla in buona parte e tornare nella natura selvaggia nelle vesti di eroe ed avventuriero. È apparso per la prima volta nel romanzo Tarzan delle Scimmie (Tarzan of the …

ユニシスは1986年9月、元アメリカ合衆国財務長官のマイケル・ブルーメンソールによるメインフレームメーカーのスペリー社とバロース社の合併（バロースがスペリーを48億ドルで買収）で設立された。 名称は「UNited Information SYStem」からの造語で、社内公募で決定された。