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| Amiga | The Commodore | was the first personal computer to use a full-featured blitter, and the fi ... |
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| Commodore 64 | ... communicating with peripherals). The Lt. Kernal hard disk subsystem for the | and Commodore 128 models stored its DOS on the disk, as is the case with m ... |
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| Commodore 64 | ... ative Software) in 1989. It was available for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, | , Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MSX and DOS, but was heavily criticised by ga ... |
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| Atanasoff–Berry Computer | ... nic digital computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the | |
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| Texas Instruments ASC | ... n vector supercomputers of the early 1970s such as the CDC Star-100 and the | , which could operate on a vector of data with a single instruction. Vecto ... |
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| Atari ST | ... der home computers (Amstrad CPC, later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, | , BBC Micro and Acorn Archimedes, etc.) output RGB with composite sync sui ... |
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| Macintosh II series | The Apple Macintosh II was the first personal computer model of the | in the Apple Macintosh line and the first Macintosh to support a color dis ... |
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| PC/XT | ... . (Contrast this with all of the "family one" IBM PC desktop models—the PC, | , and PC AT—which required a display adapter installed in a slot in order ... |
| BBC Micro | The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the | educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes ... |
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| Amiga | ... is a commonly used term for the integrated RAM used in Commodore's line of | computers. Chip RAM is shared between the central processing unit (CPU) an ... |
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| H engine | ... Napier started on the design of two new engines using the even more compact | layout. The 16-cylinder Rapier produced 400 hp (300 kW), the 24-cylinder D ... |
| Apple IIc | Apple released the | in April 1984, billing it as a portable Apple II, because it could be easi ... |
| Nova Scotia Legislature | In the | , the county is represented by three NDP MLAs |
| VK56DE | The Titan features a 32 valve 5.6 L | V8 engine which generates 317 hp, and is capable of towing approximately 9 ... |
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| SM EVM | ... DVK professional model microcomputers and industrial minicomputers like the | series, its meager 32 KB memory from which only 16 KB was generally availa ... |
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| Rotten Tomatoes | The response of major American movie reviewers was widely favorable. | , a film review aggregator counted 91% of critical reviews as favorable, g ... |
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| Amiga 2000 | ... features placed it more squarely in competition with i386 based PCs and the | |
| Rolls-Royce R | ... then dropped by Supermarine in favour of a new engine from Rolls-Royce, the | which had been especially designed for racing |
| Automated teller machine | | (ATM) vendors Wincor Nixdorf, NCR Corporation and Diebold Incorporated hav ... |
| BBC Micro | Like the | , the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources. Of the 32 KB R ... |
| Inferno operating system | ... atoms wide on microchips, was invented by Lloyd Harriott and his team. The | , an update of Plan 9, was created by Dennis Ritchie with others, using th ... |
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| PDP-11 | ... 1 model, inspired a generation of programmers and software developers. Some | systems more than 25 years old (software and hardware) are still being use ... |
| Petascale | ... combined into the shorthand "PFLOPS" (10 15 FLOPS, pronounced petaflops.) " | " supercomputers can process one quadrillion (10 15 ) (1000 trillion) FLOP ... |
| EFF DES cracker | ... ce attack mounted by a cyber civil rights group with limited resources; see | . 56 bits is now considered insufficient length for symmetric algorithm ke ... |
| Opera's own web browser | ... to engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, and is used in | |
| Allmusic | Liana Jonas of | described Conspiracy of One as The Offspring's "most musically mature coll ... |
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| UNIVAC I | The UNIVAC II was an improvement to the | that UNIVAC first delivered in 1958. The improvements included magnetic (n ... |
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| Apple IIc | ... ur new replacement chips to give it some of the features of the later model | , including an upgraded processor called the 65C02) and the Apple IIe Plat ... |
| ENIAC | Eckert and Mauchly built the | (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsy ... |
| VAX | ... o the 1990s. Also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and | products were the most successful (in terms of sales) minicomputers |
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| Lonely Planet | ... nizations have placed Greek destinations in the top of their lists. In 2009 | ranked Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city, the world's fifth ... |
| VAX | DEC's 32-bit successor to the PDP-11, the | (for "Virtual Address eXtension") overcame the 16-bit limitation, but was ... |
| UNIVAC II | The | was an improvement to the UNIVAC I that UNIVAC first delivered in 1958. Th ... |
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| PDP-10 | ... 360 and its successors such as System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture. The | also used big-endian addressing for byte-oriented instructions. SPARC hist ... |
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| Amstrad CPC | Many older home computers ( | , later ZX Spectrum models, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, BBC Micro and Acorn ... |
| DVK | While the BK was somewhat compatible with larger and more expensive | professional model microcomputers and industrial minicomputers like the SM ... |
| Flip-Chip | ... anged. The same circuits were then packaged as the first "R" (red) series " | " modules. Later, other module series provided additional speed, much high ... |
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| Rotten Tomatoes | ... he film currently holds a 70% "fresh" rating on the film aggregator website | , with an average score of 6 out of 10. It has also amassed a cult followi ... |
| IBM System/38 | Today only a few proprietary minicomputer architectures survive. The | operating system, which introduced many advanced concepts, lives on with I ... |
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| Apple I | ... he Apple II was a major technological advancement over its predecessor, the | , a limited-production bare circuit board computer for electronics hobbyis ... |
| TV Guide | In 2004 and 2007, Dark Shadows was ranked #19 and #23 on | s Top Cult Shows Ever |
| UNIVAC I | The original model range was the | (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I), the first commercial computer made in th ... |
| milling | ... ty between England and France. The Jersey way of life involved agriculture, | , fishing, shipbuilding, and production of woollen goods. 19th century imp ... |
| PDP-11 | ... PS-20, RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, and OpenVMS. PDP computers, in particular the | model, inspired a generation of programmers and software developers. Some ... |
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| Metacritic | The game currently holds an 84 Metascore on | , indicating generally positive reviews from professional critics. EA Game ... |
| TRS-80 | ... least 4 million units, the Amstrad CPC sold 3 million units, and the Tandy | sold 250,000 units |
| DASK | ... versity of Lund, SAABs räkneautomat SARA, "SAAB's calculating machine", and | made in Denmark |
| C64 | ... .I.G. Demo (Best In Galaxy). The demo was essentially a large collection of | tunes that The Exceptions ported across to the Atari ST's Yamaha YM2149 so ... |
| Amstrad CPC | Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or | , it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being ... |
| Mitsubishi Kinsei | ... blems. Power was increased by replacing the Hikari with the 626 kW (840 hp) | 3 in a redesigned cowling, and the vertical tail was enlarged to help with ... |
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| Salon.com | ... g It On. The film generated mostly critical reviews, with Charles Taylor of | writing that the film had failed to provide Dunst with as good a role as s ... |
| tripropellant | ... llant ever test-fired in a rocket engine was 542 seconds (5,320 m/s) with a | of lithium, fluorine, and hydrogen. However, this combination is impractic ... |
| VAX | ... ing proprietary computing architectures from the early 1980s, such as DEC's | , Wang VS and Hewlett Packard's HP3000 have long been discontinued without ... |
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| Flip Chip | In 1964 DEC introduced its new | module design, and used it to re-implement the PDP-4 as the PDP-7. The PDP ... |
| Amstrad CPC | ... ain" (a division of Alternative Software) in 1989. It was available for the | , ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MSX and DOS, but w ... |
| Amstrad CPC | ... II sold 6 million units, the Atari 8-bit sold at least 4 million units, the | sold 3 million units, and the Tandy TRS-80 sold 250,000 units |
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| Apple IIe | The Apple II Plus was followed in 1983 by the | , a cost-reduced yet more powerful machine that used newer chips to reduce ... |
| IBM 5100 | ... he mid 1970s, the IBM mainframe interpreter was even adapted for use on the | desktop computer, which had a small CRT and an APL keyboard, when most oth ... |
| California Thrasher | ... species to persist and produce offspring. For example, the behavior of the | is consistent with the chaparral habitat it lives in—it breeds and feeds i ... |
| Commodore 64 | ... mputers. Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the | due to few publishers showing any interest in porting it. The reason for t ... |
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| Allmusic | Steve Huey from | said "R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, mak ... |
| IBM 370 | Early IBM APL interpreters for IBM 360 and | hardware implemented their own multi-user management instead of relying on ... |
| TV Guide | ... cast member appearing to look at the other cast members. In a 2010 issue of | , the show’s opening title sequence ranked #8 on a list of TV's top 10 cre ... |
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| Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
| Harvard Mark IV | ... by the Harvard Mark II (1947 or 1948), Mark III/ADEC (September 1949), and | (1952) – all the work of Aiken. The Mark II was an improvement over the Ma ... |
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| UNIVAC Solid State | The | was a 2-address, bi-quinary coded decimal computer, with memory on a rotat ... |
| Rotten Tomatoes | ... received critical acclaim. Based on the reviews of 81 critics collected on | , 81% of critics gave the film a positive review, with the consensus being ... |
| Allmusic | Described by | as the "father of country-rock", Gram Parsons' work in the early '70s was ... |
| Atari ST | ... latform noted next to them indicate Jochen did both the Commodore Amiga and | versions |
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| Commodore 64 | ... ard it was intended to be. For a comparison with rival 8-bit computers, the | sold 17 million units worldwide in its lifetime, the Apple II sold 6 milli ... |
| UNIVAC III | Sperry Rand began shipment of | in 1962, and produced 96 UNIVAC III systems. Unlike the UNIVAC I and UNIVA ... |
| Maud Foster Tower Windmill | The seven-storeyed | , completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hul ... |