The mission of the Bull Teams Federation
The Bull Teams Federation (Fédération des Equipes Bull) is a is an association under the French Law of 1901 founded in 1986, stemming from a gathering of passionate men and women, some of them clients or partners, most of them former Bull employees, who have devoted a great effort over the years to safeguarding and promoting the historical and cultural heritage of the Bull.
Our teams rely of the skills of FEB members to preserve and enrich the Group’s collections and archives, and more generally those of French IT, while making them accessible to historians, researchers and students.
The collection of hardware designed and marketed by Bull or from competitors is currently divided between the Angers industrial site and the Clayes-sous-Bois campus in France, while a subset of the collection dedicated to printing systems is on display in Belfort. FEB Belgium has donated its archives to the Computer Museum NAM-IP in Namur. Some important equipment developed by the Bull Group is also on display or stored in the reserves of other institutions, such as the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the Association pour un Conservatoire de l’Informatique et de la Télématique (ACONIT). All French machines are listed in an inventory managed by FEB.
Bull’s friends still gather to retrace this human, technological and economic adventure.
The mission of the Fédération des Équipes Bull is to safeguard and promote the historical and cultural heritage of Bull and French IT.
A glimpse of history
In order to exploit the statistical machine patents filed by Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882-1925) in the 1920s, “H.W. Egli-Bull”, a subsidiary of Swiss company H.W. EGLI, was founded in 1931 in France, offering a larger potential market than in Switzerland.
Based at 92 bis avenue Gambetta in Paris, it is dedicated to the manufacture of tabulators, punch card sorters and punching machines. These machines are constantly being improved, to the great satisfaction of users. The T30 tabulator was the first machine to leave Gambetta’s workshops. It was equipped with an innovative printing device based on a wheel system, enabling it to print numeric and alphanumeric characters at a higher speed than its competitors. Bull’s pioneering spirit, the innovative nature of its business, and the financial backing of the Syndicat des Utilisants and then the Calliès-Aussedat family all contributed to the company’s success against its main competitors: IBM and Remington Rand. In 1935…
Fredrik Rosing Bull
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