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81Regnecentralen — Regnecentralen, or RC for short, was the first Danish computer company, founded on October 12, 1955. Through the 1950s and 60s they designed a series of computers, originally for their own use, and later to be sold commercially. Descendants of… …
82Elliott 803 — The Elliott 803 was a small computer manufactured by the British company Elliott Brothers in the 1960s. About 250 were built and most British universities and colleges bought one.HistoryThe 800 series started with the 801, a one off test machine… …
83Archive format — An archive format is the file format of an archive file. The archive format is determined by the file archiver. Some archive formats are well defined by their authors and have become conventions supported by multiple vendors and/or open source… …
84Altair 8800 — The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold as a mail order kit through advertisements in Popular Electronics , Radio Electronics and other hobbyist magazines. The designers intended to sell… …
85Machine embroidery — is a term that can be used to describe two different actions. The first is using a sewing machine to manually create (either freehand or with built in stitches) a design on a piece of fabric or other similar item. The second is to use a specially …
86History of computing hardware (1960s–present) — The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid state devices such as the transistor and later the integrated circuit. By 1959 discrete transistors were considered sufficiently reliable and …
87Fairlight CMI — The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual microprocessor computer designed by Tony… …
88RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer — The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (nicknamed Victor ) was the first programmable electronic music synthesizer and the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center. Designed by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson at RCA …
89HP 2100 — The HP 2100 was a series of minicomputers produced by Hewlett Packard from the mid 1960s to early 1990s. The 2100 was also a specific model in this series. The series would be renamed to HP 1000 by the 1970s and sold as real time computers… …
90Fialka — In cryptography, Fialka (M 125) is the name of a Cold War era Soviet cipher machine. A rotor machine, the device uses 10 rotors, each with 30 contacts along with mechanical pins to control stepping. It also makes use of a punch card mechanism.… …
