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    The Movement Drum System I/II (generally referred to as the Movement MCS Percussion Computer) is a British-made drum machine produced approximately between...
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  • 000 in 2023). Also purchased with the bank loan was a £2000 Movement Systems Drum Computer, one of only about 30 built, with the band having to sleep for...
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    entered general use, and the concept dates back to the Movement Computer Systems Drum Computer in 1981 and Fairlight CMI Page R in 1982. A groovebox consists...
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    the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities. Perhaps the most relatable example of analog computers are mechanical...
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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...
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  • Look up Drum or drum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drum is a musical instrument. Drum, drums or The Drum may also refer to: Drum (communication)...
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  • Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...
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  • Reservisor, an electromechanical computer, in 1952 to replace the card files. This computer consisted of a single magnetic drum, each memory location holding...
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    IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360 was...
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    and guide the rope smoothly onto the drum. Level winders can be hydraulically or electrically driven and computer controlled, or they can be simple mechanical...
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    Machine (redirect from Mechanical systems)
    including computers, building air handling and water handling systems; as well as farm machinery, machine tools and factory automation systems and robots...
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    components such as timers and drum sequencers used in relay logic–type systems. General-purpose process control computers have increasingly replaced stand-alone...
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  • magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation (later Sperry Univac) for their UNIVAC 1100 series and 418/490/494 series computers. A FASTRAND...
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    Computer numerical control (CNC) or CNC machining is the automated control of machine tools by a computer. It is an evolution of numerical control (NC)...
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    minimum. The ammunition handling system has two conveyor belt systems. The first takes the rounds out of the magazine drum to the gun; the second takes empty...
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  • cylindrical body of the drum, and the conditions at its boundaries (a rigid termination to the drum's body), describing its movement over time and thus its...
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    UNIVAC 1100/2200 series (category UNIVAC mainframe computers)
    The UNIVAC 1100/2200 series is a series of compatible 36-bit computer systems, beginning with the UNIVAC 1107 in 1962, initially made by Sperry Rand. The...
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    fly systems, motor-assist and dead-haul. Motor-assist systems very closely resemble standard counterweight fly systems described above, however a drum winch...
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  • A communications system is a collection of individual telecommunications networks systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and terminal equipment usually...
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  • embraced electronic elements (such as synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and computer programs) and influences such as early electronic composition...
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  • Track (moving medium) (category Computer data storage)
    words, typically 36 bits for use on binary computers and ten digits plus sign for use on decimal computers. Drums used for auxiliary storage typically had...
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  • struck and bowed pitched instruments, computer sound and video "Broken Drum" (2003) for automobile brake drum and computer "Polyrhythmicana" (2002) for flute...
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    real-time editor, one that was ported to many systems. The 1977 Commodore PET was the first mass-market computer to feature a full-screen editor. A full-screen...
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  • of Standards (NBS) in Maryland, USA. In 1957, computer pioneer Russell Kirsch and his team unveiled a drum scanner jurassic Park with giant big are dinosaurs...
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    consisted of a large computer-like box, joined to another box and was connected to an arm, with systematic tasks stored in a drum memory. In 2003 the Unimate...
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  • In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This...
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  • visually. In 1889, Edmund B. Delabarre invented a system of recording eye movement directly onto a rotating drum by means of a stylus with a direct mechanical...
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  • electronic drum pads. Mesh drumhead — The Roland V-Drums (1997) was the first drum kit with mesh drum pads. Cymbal drum pad — Roland's TD-10 Expanded System (2001)...
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    Sudha Murty (category Indian computer scientists)
    rural development efforts, supported the movement to provide all Karnataka government schools with computer and library facilities, and established Murty...
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    and smoother movement for the gamer. Some video game consoles also have the ability to function with a keyboard and a mouse. The computer keyboard is modelled...
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