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News Archive - Announcment of Agreement between Hayakawa Electric (Sharp) and Burroughs



A brief article announcing the formation of an agreement between Hayakawa Electric (Sharp) and Burroughs Corp. for Hayakawa Electric to manufacture electronic calculators to Burroughs' specifications for sale by Burroughs under the Burroughs label for distribution through the company's world-wide sales network. Many of the calculators built under this agreement were derivatives of calculators produced and sold by Sharp, with the primary differences being cabinetry and color schemes, with much of the electronics being very similar or identical. A slightly later news brief in a different publication marks the same announcement.

The first example of this collaboration is the Burroughs C3350 calculator, which is a derivative of Sharp's CS-32A Compet 32. A later example of this relationship is Sharp's EL-160, and Burroughs' C3260 calculators, which are quite different in appearance, but share the same electronics.