Hi there
I have been told that ACMS have a Burroughs Accounting Machine ( Maybe the L5000).
Can some take pictures? Adrian said it’s rather heavy and not in a very good state these days.
My wife used to work on one entering accounts in the 70s.
Thanks
Hi mate, there’s only one Burroughs machine listed in the catalogue (below), but there are lots of things that haven’t been catalogued yet so the one you’re looking for may be there.
I’ll be in the Museum tomorrow and will look out for the L5000.
C7200 Series Electromechanical calculator
It’s rather large being around 200+ kg if you have one
The one you posted is just a baby 
Ok, I found the machine and it is indeed a whopper!
I thought it was a computer bolted to a rolly desk, then I realised the computer was the desk!
Quick video with commentary here:
https://youtu.be/-O710VqmdOk
Thanks…
It seems it’s the smaller brother of the L7000 (They get bigger up to the L9000 as far as I can tell)
I’ll show my wife and see what she says… it was the 1970s she used it.
It’s an L6000, apparently a Bit serial machine with an 8K word hard drive.
It was originally owned by Lindsay’s - a toy manufacturer in Leichardt
This specific machine was owned by them?
Correct that was who I picked it from, there was some paperwork in a pink folder (if memory serves) to help provide some provenance.
Of course Burroughs also had a range of much earlier electromechanical accounting machines that preceded the L5000, L6000 etc.
Also my understanding is that the William Burroughs who started American Arithmometer Company which later became Burroughs Computers was a different person to the Author William Burroughs
And, that explains it, William S Burroughs Jr (the Author) was actually the Grandson of William S Burroughs (who founded the company)
Amazing Richard! Would love some additional details of your involvement with the ACMS - when I came on board, there was so little information available. With JG failing health, JD death and a number of others lost in the wind, it’s been an uphill battle!
@SebastianB - look at this great info Richard has provided!
Haha, I was wondering if anyone watched the whole thing!
While William snr may not have written all those books, it’s arguable that he bankrolled them, as well as an infamously chronic drug habit!
Imagine if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs had a jailbird junkie grandson with the same name who somehow became more famous than they were…
I wish I had time to have more involvement with ACMS, I was merely “Custodian” of the L6000 for a number of years before it was passed on to the ACMS…
The questions I asked at the time of acquisition (and replies) are here:
https://comp.sys.unisys.narkive.com/sGJwFMyF/burroughs-l6000
as I mentioned in reply to Digital Rampage I was the carer of the L6000 for some time, I never figured out how to drive the beastie or anything, although according to some documentation the lights indicated it had booted correctly, but that was as far as I got.
So, I kind of had a personal interest in watching the video.
The markings inside the machine dated it as 1974
