During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

Clipper ship sailing card for the " Free Trade ", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s

Zener card s used in the early twentieth century for experimental research into ESP.

The early input scheme for the 4GL supported entry of data within the 72-character limit of the punched card ( 8 bytes used for sequencing ) where a card's tag would identify the type or function.

On an early trade card, Robert Stephenson & Co were described as " Engineers, Millwrights & Machinists, Brass & Iron Founders ".

* Index cards in a rolodex or old library card catalog, early and mid 20th century technologies for maintaining such lists

While working for the insurance company, Peel filed card programs for an early IBM 1410 computer ( which led to his entry in Who's Who noting him as a former computer programmer ), and he got his first radio job, albeit unpaid, working for WRR ( AM ) in Dallas.

Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as punch card park in that institution's Bicentennial Park, a landscape literally designed to resemble a punched card, supposedly based on Lin's memories of their early use in universities.

Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Even a sound card that contains high-quality sampled sounds will have inconsistent quality from one instrument to another, and early budget cards, such as the AdLib and the Sound Blaster and its compatibles, used a stripped-down version of Yamaha's frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) technology played back through low-quality digital-to-analog converters.

The card deck for an early 4GL was a lot smaller for the same functionality expressed in a 3GL deck.

Although many early PDAs did not have memory card slots, now most have either some form of Secure Digital ( SD ) slot or a CompactFlash slot.

Some early PDAs were able to connect to the Internet indirectly by means off an external modem connected via the PDA's serial port or " sync " connector, or directly by using an expansion card that provided an Ethernet port.

Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey is depicted on an early 1900s Bible card illustration.

Since the early 2000s calling card service providers have introduced calling accounts not associated with a physical card.

Prayer card, early 20th century, depicting Boniface leaving England

However, the earliest written document mentioning a tarot-like card set occurs as early as 1227, and it says that " Italian children are instructed in the knowledge of the virtues via sheets ( cards ) denominated carticellas ".

In the early 20th century, bridge, which shares many traits with whist, displaced whist as the most popular card game among card players.

They were also used in most early video games ; and are still used for card and board games such as solitaire, chess, mahjongg, etc.

* Steel Panthers-( Strategic Simulations, Inc., 1995 )-an early tactical wargame on the same scale as Squad Leader, which led to two sequels, and a complete revision of the title for free release.

Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a naval board wargame in which the players simulate combat by sailing ships of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Like many new wargame companies in the early ' 70s, early SPI games left a lot to be desired physically.

With the quick collapse of the wargame market in the early 1980s, TSR published fewer and fewer simulation games and eventually all the magazines ( except for Strategy & Tactics ) were discontinued.

There was a counter and map wargame based directly on the book, that came out in the early 1990s.

Blitzkrieg was an early strategic-level wargame first published in 1965 by the Avalon Hill Game Company.

Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

All false gods resemble Moloch, at least in the early phases of their careers, so it would be unreasonable to expect any form of idol-worship to become widespread without the accompaniment of human sacrifice.

I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

thus early forecasting of the pubescent stage would appear possible for only seven boys.

Secondly, to find a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More's account of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century wars, of the anguish of the poor and dispossessed, of the insolence and cruelty of the rich and powerful requires a callousness toward suffering and sin that would be surprising in a moral imbecile and most surprising in More himself.

Every few days, in the early morning, as the work progressed, twenty men would appear to push it ahead and to shift the plank foundation that distributed its weight widely on the Rotunda pavement, supported as it is by ancient brick vaulting.

The absence, during her childhood and early adolescence, of experiences in developing the self-discipline to complete tasks within her ability -- experiences that would have been subsequent sources of anticipation of achievement -- and her lack of childhood opportunities to practice autonomy and initiative in play and expression, both tend in her adolescence to deprive her of the freedoms to role-experiment and to fail occasionally in experimenting.

The effort produced a valuable record of stage techniques in the early years of the century and some interesting records of great theater figures who would otherwise be only names.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

Charlie would get there early because he had the key.

Very early in his administration he informed the Kremlin through diplomatic channels, a high official source disclosed, that the new administration would react even tougher than the Eisenhower administration would during the formative period of the administration.

The Princess said it was too early to say what would be decided if no agreement was reached after three days.

Yet if he were not there, they would have missed him, as they would have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the screen door in early June ; ;

It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.

The " international ampere " was an early realization of the ampere, defined as the current that would deposit grams of silver per second from a silver nitrate solution.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

These early humans equated this soul with figures which would appear in dreams and visions.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).