Analog computer
A page from the Bombardier's Information File BIF that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight. The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated opticalmechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force durin..
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Automatic Message Accounting
Automatic Message Accounting AMA provides detail billing for telephone calls. When Direct Distance Dialing DDD was introduced in the USA message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. The need to record the time and phone number..
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Compressor
Look up compressor compression in Wiktionary the free dictionary. Compressor may refer to: . Gas compressor a mechanical device that compresses a gas e.g. air or natural gas Compressor software a video and audio compression and encoding applicat..
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Early IBM disk storage
The IBM 350 RAMAC was introduced in 1956 and was the world's first disk drive. This unit is being restored at the Computer History Museum 50 years later. The invention of magnetic disk storage pioneered by IBM in the 1950s was a critical componen..
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Engine
For other uses see Engine disambiguation. An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input. Military engines included siege engines large catapults trebuchets battering rams etc. so the first engineers were mi..
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Engine (disambiguation)
Look up engine in Wiktionary the free dictionary. An engine is a device that converts potential energy into mechanical work. Engine may also refer to: In thermodynamics: . Heat engine a physical or theoretical device that converts thermal energy..
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Harvard architecture
Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with physically separate storage and signal pathways for instructions and data. The term originated from the Harvard Mark I relay based computer which stored instructions on punched tape 24 bits wid..
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List of fictional computers
This page is intended to be a list of computers in fiction and science fiction. See the List of fictional robots and androids for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a mobile or humanlike form. Computers have often been use..
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Nipkow disk
A Nipkow disk sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk is a mechanical geometrically operating image scanning device invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. This scanning disk was a fundamental component in mechanical television through the 1920s. Physical..
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Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. Alternatively it can be described as the study of the psychological correlates of the physical parameters of acoustics. Background . . Hearing is not a purely mechanical phe..
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Quantum computer
The Bloch sphere is a representation of a qubit the fundamental building block of quantum computers. A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition and en..
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Removable media
In computer storage removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. These are not to be confused with removabl..
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Whirlwind (computer)
For other uses see Whirlwind. The Whirlwind computer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is the first computer that operated in real time used video displays for output and the first that was not simply an electronic re..
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