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121Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… …
122ProHD — State of the Industry = The U.S. consumer appetite for high definition television (HDTV) programming is undeniable. The Consumer Electronics Association says that more than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television. It is… …
123Copper wire and cable — Copper has been used in electric wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s.[1][2] The invention of the telephone in 1876 proved to be another early boon for copper wire.[3] Today, despite competition from… …
124Astronomy — (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), star , and nomos (νόμος), law ) is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth s atmosphere (such as the cosmic… …
125Vortex — A vortex (pl. vortices ) is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex. The speed and rate of rotation of the… …
126Betacam — The early form of Betacam videocassette tapes are interchangeable with Betamax, though the recordings are not Media type …
127USB — This article is about the computer bus to connect peripherals. For other uses of USB, see USB (disambiguation). Universal Serial Bus Original logo Type Computer Hardware Bus …
128Ampex — (NASDAQ|AMPX) is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence. Origins Alexander M. Poniatoff established the… …
