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UNIVAC 1050
The UNIVAC 1050 was a variable word-length (computer hardware), variable word-length (one to 16 characters) decimal and binary computer. It was initially announced in May 1962 as an off-line input-output processor for larger UNIVAC systems. Instruction set, Instructions were fixed length (30 bits – five characters), consisting of a five-bit "opcode, op code", a three-bit index register specifier, one reserved bit, a 15-bit address, and a six-bit "detail field" whose function varies with each instruction. The memory was up to 32K of six-bit characters. The first 256 memory positions were group into 64 fields of 4 characters each, called "tetrads", it is possible to address any of these positions either by tetrad or by individual character. These Tetrads were used to implement the following: * 2 x Arithmetic Registers (each 16 characters wide) * 7 x Index Registers (each 3 characters wide) * Multiplier and Quotient (each 4 characters wide) * 6 x I/O Channels Like the IBM 1401 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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U1, U.I or U-1 may refer to: People and characters *Yuvan Shankar Raja (stage name: U1; born 1979), a Tamil musician and film composer *U-1, a fictional character, the protagonist of the ''Gitaroo Man'' video game Computing and electronics *U1, a Secure Digital#Speed class rating, speed class for Secure Digital (SD) cards *Apple U1, a mobile system-on-a-chip *''Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness'', a 1981 video game *U1 Technology, a video game publisher Military *U-1, the 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation system, USAF and 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, US Military's designation for the De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter light transport aircraft *U-1, Soviet Union military aircraft designation systems, Soviet designation for Avro 504 trainer *Multiple German U-boats named German submarine U-1, ''U-1'' *Oberursel U.I, an early German aircraft engine *HDMS U-1, a Danish submarine *SM U-1 (Austria-Hungary), SM U-1, an Austro-Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LBS SR03-09286-85-AL
LBS or lbs may refer to: Science and technology * Plural abbreviation for the pound unit of mass * Location-based service, software service using geographical location Organisations * , member banks of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe * Lauder Business School, Vienna, Austria * Lease Buyback Scheme, Singapore * Lekki British School, Nigeria * Lexington Broadcast Services Company, a former television production and syndication company * Liberia Broadcasting System, a state-owned radio and television network * Liverpool Business School, England * London Business School, of the University of London, England * Louise Brooks Society, a film star fan club Other uses * Labasa Airport, airport in Fiji * Lal Bahadur Shastri, (1904–1966), former prime minister of India * Legendary Banked Slalom, a snowboard race, Washington State, US * Local bike shop, a small business * London Borough of Southwark, UK * London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton () is an Outer London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNIVAC 492
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. The BINAC, built by the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the first general-purpose computer for commercial use, but it was not a success. The last UNIVAC-badged computer was produced in 1986. History and structure J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1943 and 1946. A 1946 patent rights dispute with the university led Eckert and Mauchly to depart the Moore School to form the Electronic Control Company, later renamed Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That company first built a computer called BINAC (BINary Automat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Bank Of Switzerland
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) was a Swiss Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998 to become UBS. This merger formed what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second largest bank in the world. UBS was formed in 1912 through the merger of the Bank in Winterthur and Toggenburger Bank, both founded in the early 1860s. UBS then continued to grow through acquisitions, including Aargauische Kreditanstalt in 1919, in 1945, Interhandel, Interhandel Basel in 1967, Phillips & Drew in 1986, and Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. in 1997 among others. The historical UBS logo comprises the initials "UBS" horizontally, crossed by vertical "SBG", referring to the name of the bank in German. "UBS" ceased to be considered a representational abbreviation for the Union Bank of Switzerland after the bank's 1998 merger with S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teletype Model 33
The Teletype Model 33 is an electromechanical teleprinter designed for light-duty office use. It is less rugged and cost less than earlier Teletype models. The Teletype Corporation introduced the Model 33 as a commercial product in 1963, after it had originally been designed for the United States Navy. The Model 33 was produced in three versions: * Model 33 ASR (Automatic Send and Receive), which has a built-in eight-hole punched tape reader and tape punch; * Model 33 KSR (Keyboard Send and Receive), which lacks the paper tape reader and punch; * Model 33 RO (Receive Only) which has neither a keyboard nor a reader/punch. The Model 33 was one of the first products to employ the newly-standardized ASCII character encoding method, which was first published in 1963. A companion Teletype Model 32 used the older, established five-bit Baudot code. Because of its low price and ASCII compatibility, the Model 33 was widely used, and the large quantity of teleprinters sold strongly influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contra-rotating
Contra-rotating, also referred to as coaxial contra-rotating, is a technique whereby parts of a mechanism rotate in opposite directions about a common axis, usually to minimise the effect of torque. Examples include some aircraft propellers, resulting in the maximum power of a single piston or turboprop engine to drive two propellers in opposite rotation. Contra-rotating propellers are also common in some marine transmission systems, in particular for large speed boats with planing hulls. Two propellers are arranged one behind the other, and power is transferred from the engine via planetary gear transmission. The configuration can also be used in helicopter designs termed coaxial rotors, where similar issues and principles of torque apply. Contra-rotating propellers should not be confused with counter-rotating propellers, a term which describes propellers rotating in opposite directions but sitting apart from each other on separate shafts instead of sharing a common axis. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FASTRAND
FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation (later Sperry Univac) for their UNIVAC 1100/2200 series, UNIVAC 1100 series and 418/490/494 series computers. A FASTRAND subsystem consisted of one or two Control Units and up to eight FASTRAND units. A dual-access FASTRAND subsystem included two complete control units, and provided parallel data paths that allowed simultaneous operations on any two FASTRAND units in the subsystem. Each control unit interfaced to one (optionally two) 1100 Series (36-bit), or 490 Series (30-bit), parallel I/O channels. A voice coil actuator moved a bar containing multiple single track recording heads, so these drums operated much like moving head disk drives with multiple disks. The heads "flew" on self-acting hydrodynamic air bearings. The drums had a plated magnetic recording surface. An optional feature called Fastband included 24 additional tracks with fixed read/write heads. This feature provided rapid access (35 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LBS SR03-09286-84-AL
LBS or lbs may refer to: Science and technology * Plural abbreviation for the pound unit of mass * Location-based service, software service using geographical location Organisations * , member banks of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe * Lauder Business School, Vienna, Austria * Lease Buyback Scheme, Singapore * Lekki British School, Nigeria * Lexington Broadcast Services Company, a former television production and syndication company * Liberia Broadcasting System, a state-owned radio and television network * Liverpool Business School, England * London Business School, of the University of London, England * Louise Brooks Society, a film star fan club Other uses * Labasa Airport, airport in Fiji * Lal Bahadur Shastri, (1904–1966), former prime minister of India * Legendary Banked Slalom, a snowboard race, Washington State, US * Local bike shop, a small business * London Borough of Southwark, UK * London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton () is an Outer London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Printer
A line printer Printer (computing), prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were printer (computing)#Impact printers, impact printers. Line printers are mostly associated with unit record equipment and the early days of digital computing, but the technology is still in use. Print speeds of 600 lines per minute (approximately 10 pages per minute) were achieved in the 1950s, later increasing to as much as 1200 lpm. Line printers print a complete line at a time and have speeds in the range of 150 to 2500 lines per minute. Some types of impact line printers are #Drum printer, drum printers, #Band printer, band-printers, and #Chain printer, chain printers. Non-impact technologies have also been used, e.g., thermal printing, thermal line printers were popular in the 1970s and 1980s, some inkjet and laser printers produce output a line or a page at a time. Designs Many impact printers, such as the daisywheel printer and dot matri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variable Word-length (computer Hardware)
In computing, a word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the ''word size'', ''word width'', or ''word length'') is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture. The size of a word is reflected in many aspects of a computer's structure and operation; the majority of the registers in a processor are usually word-sized and the largest datum that can be transferred to and from the working memory in a single operation is a word in many (not all) architectures. The largest possible address size, used to designate a location in memory, is typically a hardware word (here, "hardware word" means the full-sized natural word of the processor, as opposed to any other definition used). Documentation for older computers with fixed word size commonly states memory sizes in words rather than bytes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punched Card
A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information via the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Developed over the 18th to 20th centuries, punched cards were widely used for data processing, the control of automated machines, and computing. Early applications included controlling weaving looms and recording census data. Punched cards were widely used in the 20th century, where unit record equipment, unit record machines, organized into data processing systems, used punched cards for Input (computer science), data input, data output, and data storage. The IBM 12-row/80-column punched card format came to dominate the industry. Many early digital computers used punched cards as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and Data (computing), data. Punched cards were used for decades before being replaced by magnetic storage and terminals. Their influence persists in cultural references, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
