Years ago, I created my first Burroughs website with Earthlink. The website was free with my Earthlink account. I used Microsoft FrontPage and got it off the ground. But life is busy and I soon found it was difficult to update the website. But it has been a success to some degree I believe because it caused hundreds of people to make contact with me about their adding machines. It really facilitated this hobby I developed about the history of William Seward Burroughs and his machines.
A year ago, Earthlink advised that the free website was going to be removed because their new platform for hosting could not work with FrontPage. I had a year to find another way to have my website on line, and perhaps improve the long neglected one. So almost a year passed and I struggled to make any progress. Then the coronavirus struck. I had to stop working and had a great deal of time to get back to the website problem and get it done.
So this is my new website and it can be edited and improved as often as need be. I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful.
As Burroughs, or ex-Burroughs employees, I hope I can provide some interesting comments here as time goes on. To get started, I just read a bit from a manual I purchased a long time ago called "Agency Standard Practice Manual" dated 1935. It is like the Field Marketing Manuals I was used to during my time at Burroughs. So I ran across some interesting things I want to share about 1935 Burroughs:
Our Branch Office was called Agency Office.
Our Branch Managers were called Agency Manager.
Our Field Engineers were called Mechanical Inspectors.
Our 5 day work week was a six day work week at the Agency.
Let me know what I can correct or add to my website information. You can write me at [email protected]
A year ago, Earthlink advised that the free website was going to be removed because their new platform for hosting could not work with FrontPage. I had a year to find another way to have my website on line, and perhaps improve the long neglected one. So almost a year passed and I struggled to make any progress. Then the coronavirus struck. I had to stop working and had a great deal of time to get back to the website problem and get it done.
So this is my new website and it can be edited and improved as often as need be. I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful.
As Burroughs, or ex-Burroughs employees, I hope I can provide some interesting comments here as time goes on. To get started, I just read a bit from a manual I purchased a long time ago called "Agency Standard Practice Manual" dated 1935. It is like the Field Marketing Manuals I was used to during my time at Burroughs. So I ran across some interesting things I want to share about 1935 Burroughs:
Our Branch Office was called Agency Office.
Our Branch Managers were called Agency Manager.
Our Field Engineers were called Mechanical Inspectors.
Our 5 day work week was a six day work week at the Agency.
Let me know what I can correct or add to my website information. You can write me at [email protected]