Very Rare BURROUGHS CORPORATION Working Proof
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Product Details
Company
Burroughs Corporation
Certificate Type
Working Proof of the company's Debenture Bond
Time Period
1980's
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Format & Approximate Size
This proof is adhered to a thick 12" x 8 1/2" piece of cardboard. The proof is protected by a "flip up" clear protective and editing layer and is adhered to the folder itself.
Images
You will receive the exact proof pictured as it is the only one of it's kind. The first picture shows the proof with the edit layer lying atop the piece. The second picture shows just the proof with the plastic layer lifted out of view. The third picture shows the back of the cardboard with various notations and approvals.
Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
Additional Details
Fascinating piece of financial history from this historic tech company!
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters and printers.
In the 1960s, the company introduced a range of mainframe computers that were well regarded for their performance running high-level languages. These formed the core of the company's business into the 1970s. At that time the emergence of superminicomputers and the dominance of the IBM System/360 and 370 at the high end led to shrinking markets, and in 1986 the company purchased former competitor Sperry UNIVAC and merged their operations to form Unisys.
Additional Information
Certificates carry no value on any of today's financial indexes and no transfer of ownership is implied. All items offered are collectible in nature only. So, you can frame them, but you can't cash them in!
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