The Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) was the first electronic digital computing device.

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

The ABC was built and tested over the next two years.

The ABC was designed for a specific purpose, the solution of systems of simultaneous linear equations.

The original ABC was eventually dismantled, when the University converted the basement to classrooms, and all of its pieces except for one memory drum were discarded.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

He was also a periodic panelist on ABC and NBC's Who Said That?

In August 1967 Capp was the narrator and host of an ABC network special called Do Blondes Have More Fun?

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

Two years later, WHDH-FM was licensed, and on November 26, 1957, WHDH-TV made its début as an ABC affiliate on channel 5.

Its first publication was the Abridged Bliss Classification ( ABC ), intended for school libraries.

Flockhart's last appearance on television was as Kitty Walker, opposite Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths and Matthew Rhys, in the ABC prime time series Brothers & Sisters, which premiered in September 2006 in the time slot after Desperate Housewives.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

Frontier was syndicated on ABC Family shortly after that.

Wray was cast in the 1953-1954 ABC situation comedy, The Pride of the Family, as Catherine Morrison.

Within days it was reported that Fox had been excluded from an interview with administration official Ken Feinberg, with bureau chiefs from the White House press pool ( ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN ) coming to Fox's defense.

It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995 and 1997.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

In 1947, Marx was chosen to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life broadcast by ABC and then CBS, before moving over to NBC radio and television in 1950.

His television program, Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the ABC network, and, in addition to numerous appearances by top players, included segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and Forest Evashevski, among others.

Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade.

In 1939, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ), The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer.

Though the ABC machine was not programmable, it was the first to use electronic tubes in an adder.

UPN also bought the rights to broadcast television shows Clueless ( formerly on ABC ), The Hughleys ( formerly on ABC ), and Roswell ( formerly on The WB ).

Bhatia also explained in the takeover announcement that the loan, representing the refinanced ABC Corporation debt ( secured using the stadium as collateral ) has now been " bought off " by the new regime ( that is, refinanced by new debt ).

Agnes Nixon initially produced her series One Life to Live and All My Children through her own production company, Creative Horizons, Inc., and kept a complete archive of monochrome kinescopes until ABC bought the shows from her in 1975.

In 1976 ABC Records bought Word Records, and they switched Norman to its Word subsidiary.

WENR and WLS used the same frequencies in a time-sharing arrangement until 1954, when ABC ( then known as American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres ) bought a 50 percent interest in WLS and combined the stations.

In March 1979, ABC was bought by MCA Records, and for most of the next two years they were caught in contractual problems that prevented them from releasing the album.

Word Records, founded in 1951, was bought in 1976 by ABC.

Perry's new comedy pilot, Mr. Sunshine, based on Perry's original idea, was bought by ABC.

He bought a typewriter and typed all the ABC letters, along with Cust's appointment letter.

RHC Media, owned by BCP, bought the Red Herring assets out of ABC and kept the business operating.

In addition to the Paramount film, television, home video, and music publishing divisions, the company continued to own the Madison Square Garden properties ( which also included MSG Network ), a 50 % stake in USA Networks ( the other 50 % was owned by MCA / Universal Studios, which incidentally became the owner of the Famous Music Group catalog when it bought ABC Records in 1979 and a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library when it bought it in 1958 ) and Simon and Schuster ( which itself acquired Prentice Hall a few years before, and later Gousha ).

In 1974, the label ( along with the rest of the Famous Music Group ) was bought by ABC Records ( which ironically had tried to purchase Dot years before ) and discontinued the label at the start of 1978.

The ABC / Dot headquarters became the Nashville office of ABC Records, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, which coincidentally had been bought by Paramount's old theater chain in 1953 ( which helped the network catch up to its rivals CBS and NBC ), and had started a good relationship with Paramount's TV division ( wherein Paramount produced a number of hit series on ABC ).

In early 1997, CBS bought Family Matters and Step by Step for $ 40 million from ABC.

Miller-Boyett thought that they would not be big players on ABC after recently being bought up by Disney.

In 2005, the area's ABC affiliate, WOKR-TV, changed its calls to WHAM-TV ; Clear Channel bought the station in 2002 and sold its entire television group to Providence Equity Partners in 2007 ; the two stations still have a news partnership.

In 1985, Cineplex bought out the Plitt Theatres chain ( previously United Paramount Theatres and ABC Theatres ).

Noble ’ s network almost went bankrupt and in 1951 Leonard Goldenson and United Paramount Theaters bought ABC for $ 25 million.

New owners Citadel Broadcasting, who bought ABC Radio from Disney in 2008, chose Mike Huckabee instead but the show lasted only one week before it was taken off the air.

In 1995, ABC bought then rival country station WYAY 106. 7, which is now " All News 106. 7 ".