Born kinda:
Lake Success, New York, U.S
William Seward Burroughs II
February 5, 1914
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died Mostly:
"The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots,
bombsights,
analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights.
In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers."
August 2, 1997 (aged 83)
Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
#$&@*&$$$
Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation "
"Burroughs attended Harvard University, where he studied English, then veered into substance abuse, beginning with morphine and developing a heroin addiction that would affect him for the rest of his life"
"In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. They rode boxcars boxcars boxcars." First class .
"Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. He initially claimed that he had accidentally shot her while drunkenly attempting a "William Tell" stunt.
He later told investigators that he had been showing his pistol to friends when it fell and hit the table, firing the bullet that killed Vollmer. Hmmm.
After he fled from Mexico
back to the United States,
he was convicted of manslaughter in absentia and received a two-year suspended sentence.
(1917 13 Flying bomb)
Much of Burroughs' work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators, but it is also semi-autobiographical"
"Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in such works of his as The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964). His writing also engages frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes"
"he owed this reputation to his "lifelong subversion"of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism, while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius."
"He is also cited as a major influence by musicians Roger Waters, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Curtis, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Todd Tamanend Clark, John Zorn, Tom Waits, Gary Numan,
and Kurt Cobain, and Ken Kesey."
"Burroughs is also cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the "23 Enigma":
"Burroughs is arguably the progenitor of the 2012 phenomenon, a belief of New Age Mayanism
that an apocalyptic shift in human consciousness would occur at the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 2012.
Although never directly focusing on the year 2012 himself, Burroughs had an influence on early 2012 proponents such as Terence McKenna and
Jose Argüelles,
and as well had written about an apocalyptic shift of human consciousness at the end of the Long Count as early as 1960's The Exterminator."
"Burroughs appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
the iconic 1967 Beatles album, where he can be seen in the middle of the second row."
(Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, at Davis, California.)
"Robert Anton Wilson ( was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
not agnosticism about God alone
but agnosticism about everything"
Especially punk tu ashyn"$@&#*&++$
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpin%27_Jack_Flash_(film)
"Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation,
which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys.
Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of
Honeywell,
Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon Technologies, and
Northrop Grumman.
Nazi bean counting/mushing Inc.
"The 1986 comedy Jumpin' Jack Flash features many Spermy computers in the bank
where the protagonist (played by Whoopi Goldberg)
works. Jim Belushi plays the role of a Spermy "repairman" ?#&@$#*(?
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