The best reference for the B6500/6700 on bitsavers will be:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B6500/1058633_B6700_Reference_Manual_197205.pdf

The Handbook is useful, but more of a quick reference in a smaller form factor.

Note that the B6500 and B6700 were the same machine. The B6500s that were first 
delivered to the field had many electrical and a few logic problems, and fixing 
them required swapping out the old processor cabinets for new ones. All 
existing customers received the new processors at no charge, ca 1971.

Architecturally, the processors were the same, but Marketing decided to rename 
the system for reputational reasons. So in addition to the new processors, all 
of the existing sites received a box of new nameplates, which the Field 
Engineers had to go around the replace on all of the cabinets. I still have one 
of the original B6500 nameplates.

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