Most such devices include a tiny postage stamp sized LCD screen for viewing simplified ladder logic ( only a very small portion of the program being visible at a given time ) and status of I / O points, and typically these screens are accompanied by a 4-way rocker push-button plus four more separate push-buttons, similar to the key buttons on a VCR remote control, and used to navigate and edit the logic.

It would often take upwards of five minutes to load the tiny program into memory, and a single error while flipping the switches meant that the bootstrap loader would crash the machine.

The process of loading Apple DOS involved a series of very tiny programs, each of which carried the loading process forward a few steps before passing control to the next program in the chain.

The term boot comes from the idea of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps: the computer contains a tiny program ( bootstrap loader ) which will load and run a program found on a boot device.

The chairman of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, which provided state funding for Safe Schools program defended GLSEN's work in the state's schools, stating " A tiny minority of opponents of the program are grasping at straws to discredit the program.

The core of the TRIUMF nuclear medicine program is Positron Emission Tomography or PET imaging, a technique whereby tiny amounts of radioactive nuclei known as radioisotopes are combined with certain bio-molecules and injected into the body.

Fabrice Bellard's entries won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice: In 2000, he won in the category " Most Specific Output " for a program that implemented the modular Fast Fourier Transform and used it to compute the then biggest known prime number, 2 ^ 6972593-1 ; and in 2001, he won in the category " Best Abuse of the Rules " for a tiny compiler ( the source code being only 3KB in size ) of a strict subset of the C language for i386 Linux.

After his birth on September 3, 1927, the tiny voice of Brinkley's son John Richard Brinkley III, nicknamed " Johnny Boy ", was heard on the radio program.

The program was also sponsored by EMMD's which got rid of breath and body odors and each tiny capsule was said to contain 100g ( nearly four ounces ) of chlorophyll, which is a miracle in itself.

Over the rattling of fenders, humming of tires and chattering of gears there was a charming melody of whispers and tiny giggles.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.

But he was looking forward to snow -- seeing for himself that each tiny crystal of the water of life was a unique individual, as he had read -- walking barefoot, rolling in it.

No -- there was a tiny pip on the radar ; ;

Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw.

As a tyrannosaurid, Albertosaurus was a bipedal predator with tiny, two-fingered hands and a massive head with dozens of large, sharp teeth.

A tiny, neat woman, aged 30, she was well read and intelligent.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

Her Journal was an important laboratory for her creativity serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment where in tiny handwriting she reported on society, recorded her impressions of art and artists, recounted stories, and observed life around her.

In these inventions, the ink was placed in a thin tube whose end was blocked by a tiny ball, held so that it could not slip into the tube or fall out of the pen.

Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket.

But the sponsorship deal was terminated before it commenced after it was revealed that British steel only made up a tiny fraction of steel used in construction of the stadium-the bulk of the steel had been imported from Germany.

Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.

With the exception of the sports cars, even the quite tiny sedans will seat four passengers if you are willing to sacrifice comfort and luggage space for really economical transportation.

If he decides to proceed, he will custom-make for Susie an appliance consisting of bands, plastic plates, fine wires, and tiny springs.

Lolotte held a patch of leather, Rev steadied something, a tiny brad, waiting for George's poised hammer.

Giving up the violin opened a whole new career for Ilona Schmidl-Seeberg, a tiny Hungarian who Fritz Kreisler had predicted would have a promising career on the concert stage.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

In large part, this is because the tiny flowers forming the umbels, are perfectly suited for ladybugs, parasitic wasps, and predatory flies, which actually drink nectar when not reproducing.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

One of the latest developments is the identification of a plant gene, At-DBF2, from Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny weed that is often used for plant research because it is very easy to grow and its genetic code is well mapped out.

At the intersection with 72nd street, the triangle of tiny Verdi Square is surrounded by several notable apartment buildings, including The Ansonia, and the Florentine palazzo occupied by Apple Bank for Savings.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

Slender beaks were found on the finches which found insects to be the best source of food on the island they inhabited ; their slender beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for pulling out the insects from their tiny hiding places.

While known for most elements, either or both of these measurements is still undetermined for some of the radioactive elements available in only tiny quantities.

Only a very small percentage or a tiny fraction of people can ever make a name for themselves as celebrities in the entertainment spheres such as ( including music, film, television, radio, theater, modelling, literature etc.

Some of them are intended for tiny tablet computers and wireless mobile terminals, many of them are additionally available as apps on Apples iOS devices.

The spider used the webs to catch bogeys, tiny energy creatures that it consumed for energy.

This is an inherently global view, though, because there is no way for the differential topologist to tell whether the two objects are the same ( in this sense ) by looking at just a tiny ( local ) piece of either of them.