Burroughs Corporation

Burroughs Corporation is significant in the account as both a shared workplace and a point of transition: Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez met while employed there, and the announced closure of its Santa Barbara division led Sanchez to explore work opportunities farther away.

Employment Setting

In the late 1970s, Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez were both employed by Burroughs Corporation. Sanchez was a computer programmer. Their meeting at work began a relationship that continued, on and off, from 1977 through 1981, linking the company to the personal history at the center of this part of the narrative.

Santa Barbara Division Closure

In June 1981, Burroughs Corporation announced that it would shut down its Santa Barbara division. Sanchez planned a trip to the East Coast to explore job opportunities at the company’s Florida branch. The account establishes this as a practical consequence of the closure announcement, without specifying whether he obtained a position or what ultimately happened to his employment.

Role in the Narrative

The company’s presence is brief but consequential: it supplies the setting for Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez’s first meeting, then reappears as an employer facing a local shutdown while Sanchez considered a move for work. The account does not elaborate on Burroughs Corporation’s wider operations; its significance here lies in those two concrete connections to the people and events being recounted.