After the B5000: Burroughs Third-Generation Computers 1964—1980

@article{Gray2009AfterTB,
  title={After the B5000: Burroughs Third-Generation Computers 1964—1980},
  author={George T. Gray and Ronald Q. Smith},
  journal={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
  year={2009},
  volume={31},
  pages={44-55}
}
Although Burroughs experienced moderate success with its medium- and small-sized computers, the company's large-scale systems and supercomputers were plagued by product delivery delays and quality issues. These struggles with its large-scale commercial products left it at a serious disadvantage in the competitive market of the 1980s. 
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