The Sony PCM-F1 adaptor was sold with a companion Betamax VCR SL-2000 as a portable digital audio recording system.

These were almost always powered by the local AC line current and so were not particularly portable.

However, in contemporary accounts these were nearly always called hurdy gurdy shows, possibly derived from the term hurdy gurdy that was sometimes mistakenly applied to a small, portable barrel organ that was frequently played by organ grinders and buskers.

Those were focused on the suppression of enemy machine gun nests by the combined action of portable ( Chauchat ) automatic fire plus the VB rifle grenades, always used within a range of less than 200 yards.

Additionally, because portable griddles are easily moved from one location to another, care must always be used to ensure that there is sufficient clearance between the griddle location and combustible materials.

Prior to the advent of the portable ' mill, small-scale sawmills were generally cobbled-together affairs constructed and operated by ( almost always ) two men with a penchant for tinkering.

Starting from pop ' n music portable on console releases and Pop ' n Music 20 fantasia on arcade releases, " Cool " is always on, regarding to Challenge Mode and Cho-Challenge Mode are combined into one mode, Single Mode.

However, this is not always the case ; often-seen exceptions include a computer's AC Power Inlet and EIA232 DE9 Serial Port, or the male coaxial power jacks for connecting external power adapters to portable equipment.

Often ( but not always ) a retargetable compiler is portable ( the compiler itself can run on several different CPUs ) and self-hosting.

Originally written around 1972 – 1973, EISPACK, like LINPACK and MINPACK, originated from Argonne National Laboratory, has always been free, and aims to be portable, robust and reliable.

Exclusionary practices always exist in the residential and housing fields, against human rights laws, however, there does remain lack of an affordable, accessible supply of housing the US, similar to the waiting lists for portable housing vouchers.

“ Gator ” always took along his portable recording equipment and interviewed teens at the dances.

The inherent trade-offs of a portable CMM are manual operation ( always requires a human to use it ), and overall accuracy is somewhat to much less accurate than a bridge type CMM.

Customers are given a theft-protected portable receiver that usually vibrates, flashes, or beeps when a table becomes free or when their meal is ready.

" Hardened stories ," or " narratives that become context-free, portable and ready to be used anywhere and anytime for illustrative purposes ," jeopardize narrative inquiry by " killing the spirit of inquiry " and freezing the story in time.

The word portable derives from the French word porter (" to wear ", as in " pret a porter " = " ready to wear ", but also " to carry ").

Because the high school's buildings were still under construction and not ready for occupation, the new high school was housed in extra classrooms and portable buildings at Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, sharing facilities such as sports, music and the library with the younger students there.

They are frequently seen at outdoor work sites, particularly construction sites, farms, ranches, camp sites and large banks of dozens of portable toilets allow for ready sanitation at large gatherings such as outdoor music festivals.

Free-living caddisflies do not build retreats or carry portable cases until they are ready to pupate and their bodies tend to be tougher than the building.

Vincent primarily made munitions, but Vincent engines were trialled in boats and portable pumps during the war, and the end of hostilities saw Vincent ready to return to motorcycle production.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

The roots of SWT go back to work that Object Technology International, or OTI, did in the 1990s when creating multiplatform, portable, native widget interfaces for Smalltalk ( originally for OTI Smalltalk, which became IBM Smalltalk in 1993 ).

His work included a portable boat ( Plate 39 ), that is say a boat that, thanks to the same energy as the current may go against the river ( Plate 40 ).

* PCWorld. ca Mobile phone numbers go portable ( March 2007 )

It proposed using tax credits to offset the cost of health insurance ; providing for individuals to be able to go outside the workplace to obtain portable private health coverage directly from an insurance company ; and the creation of a " safety net " for the uninsured.

In beaches some go on foot with a special portable box to carry them.

They can use PC based dictation software, call-in dictation using a system or for the author on the go, they can use a digital portable recorder.

These include a " portable hole " ( a small portal he can step through and disappear to the main menu ), a diver's suit ( When you go in water wearing this suit ; you will go to a bonus level instead of losing a life.

This enables another notable feature of the Sun Ray, portable sessions: a user can go from one Sun Ray to another and continue their work without closing any programs.

In 1882, he returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine.

Its use as a cooking fuel is mostly restricted to some portable stoves for backpackers and to less-developed countries, where it is usually less refined and contains impurities and even debris.

Lossless audio formats are most often used for archiving or production purposes, with smaller lossy audio files being typically used on portable players and in other cases where storage space is limited and / or exact replication of the audio is unnecessary.

Philips was instrumental in the revival of the Stirling engine when, in the early 1930s, the management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would assist in expanding sales of its radios into parts of the world where mains electricity was unavailable and the supply of batteries uncertain.

Before the advent of the touchpad, small trackballs were common on portable computers, where there may be no desk space on which to run a mouse.

In Canada, at least ( where, like all portable radios distributed in that country, the WM-FX290 lacked access to TV and weather bands ) this device appears to have ceased production as of May 2006.

This is to make files portable and versatile especially for proprietary and legacy files where viewers are not easy to come by.

The data structure of the MiniDisc, where music is recorded in a single stream of bytes while the TOC contains pointers to track positions, allows for gapless playback of music, something which the majority of competing portable players, including most MP3 players, fail to implement properly.

This may cause a problem where it's cheaper to buy electricity than to burn fuel, therefore many engines are used in CHP ( Combined Heat and Power ) configurations that can be small enough to be integrated into portable container configurations.

Planetariums range in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 21-meter dome seating 423 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor.

Power tools are classified as either stationary or portable, where portable means hand-held.

This period of growth and prosperity was led by an influx of timber workers from the Taneum Canyon, where the Cascade Logging Company maintained a portable logging camp.

A few gasoline and gas-powered appliances exist for use in situations where electricity is not expected to be available, but these are typically larger and not as portable as most small appliances.

After focus has occurred the LD usually sits at a temporary desk ( tech table ) in the theater ( typically on the Center Line in the middle of the house ) where he or she has a good view of the stage and work with the lighting board operator / programmer, who will either be seated alongside him or her at a portable control console or talk via headset to the control room.

This area was prairie, where Native Americans constructed portable and temporary tepees for housing.

The priests carried a portable shrine as far as the central hall of Enryaku-ji, where a curse was laid on daijō-daijin Fujiwara Moromichi.

A portable stove can be used where campfires are forbidden or impractical.

A portable stove is a cooking stove specially designed to be portable and lightweight, as for camping or picnicking, or for use in remote locations where an easily transportable means of cooking or heating is needed.

Liquid fuel lanterns remain popular where the fuel ( see portable stove for a discussion on fuel ) is easily obtained and is in common use.

The most common use for valve closets is now in portable closets for caravans, camping, trains, and aircraft where the flushing fluid is recycled.

He worked in ballistics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, where he invented the Aberdeen Chronograph, the first instrument to measure accurately the muzzle velocity of artillery shells, and portable enough to be used on the battlefield.

* Photos of the Watertown Steam Engine Company buildings, where the first portable steam engine was created