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B205 and often
For example a B205 console was often shown in the television series Batman as the Bat Computer ; also as the computer in Lost in Space.

B205 and .
The first major computer product that came from this marriage was the B205 tube computer.
Burroughs B205 hardware has appeared as props in many Hollywood television and film productions from the 1960s onwards.
The first-generation 9-5 was powered by Saab's B205 and B235 straight-4 engines, and from 2002 in Europe by a Opel Ecotec X22DTH 2. 2 diesel engine ( Saab D223L ), replaced in 2006 by Fiat's 1. 9 JTD 16V diesel straight-4.
The B205 & B235-based 9-5 models have suffered a high rate of engine failures due to engine oil sludge.
While in 1956 it branded as the B205 a machine produced by a company it bought, its first internally developed machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought to address its late entry in the market with the strategy of a completely different design based on the most advanced computing ideas available at the time.
In addition the Sellafield site which, amongst other activities, reprocessed spent Magnox fuel in its B205 plant, has an estimated decommissioning cost of £ 31. 5 billion.
B204 was in production in the Saab 9-3 until 2000, when it was replaced by B205.

tape and drives
| ATA / ATAPI-4 || ATA-4, || aka UDMA / 33 || || AT Attachment Packet Interface ( ATAPI ) ( support for CD-ROM, tape drives etc.
Like IBM, Burroughs tried to supply a complete line of products for its customers, including Burroughs-designed printers, disk drives, tape drives, computer printing paper, and even typewriter ribbons.
Although superior to paper tape, DECtapes were relatively slow, and were supplanted as reliable disk drives became affordable.
One of its major products was the SA-10, an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.
This is well-suited for machines with tape drives.
Early IBM tape drives were floor-standing drives that used vacuum columns to physically buffer long U-shaped loops of tape.
Stock shots of such vacuum-column tape drives in motion were widely used to represent " the computer " in movies and television.
Though the areal density of tape is lower than for disk drives, the available surface area on a tape is far greater.
The highest capacity tape media are generally on the same order as the largest available disk drives ( about 5 TB in 2011 ).
The programmed I / O bus would typically run low to medium-speed peripherals, such as printers, teletypes, paper tape punches and readers, while DMA was used for cathode ray tube screens with a light pen, analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, tape drives, disk drives.
With large capacity hard drives by standards of the day ( two 300 MB drives ), streaming tape and Ethernet, it could be the centerpiece of an animation operation.
SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it can connect a wide range of other devices, including scanners and CD drives, although not all controllers can handle all devices.
There were initially two types of channels ; byte-multiplexer channels, for connecting " slow speed " devices such as card readers and punches, line printers, and communications controllers, and selector channels for connecting high speed devices, such as disk drives, tape drives, data cells and drums.

tape and were
On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.
Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.
The games were originally meant to be loaded from tape, but were later changed to load from ROM.
Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.
All of these tracks were made by the assembly of spliced tape edits that would sometimes run " all over the room ".
Early storage devices such as delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, and magnetic drums were used instead.
And in the early days of microcomputers, paper tape or audio cassette tape ( see Kansas City standard ) or nothing were used instead.
This may sound like a serious limitation today, but in an era when most data was stored on magnetic tape such operations were too expensive to contemplate anyway.
The signals from the telegraph line were temporarily stored on a set of five electromagnets, before being decoded to print the corresponding character on paper tape.
The instructions available were: add, subtract, multiply, collate, shift left, shift right, load multiplier register, store ( and optionally clear ) accumulator, conditional skip, read input tape, print character, round accumulator, no-op and stop.
The machine operators, who were present during the day, selected the next tape from the line and loaded it into EDSAC.
If it printed something then the tape and the printout were returned to the user, otherwise they were informed at which memory location it had stopped.
These were densified into networks of traverses ( polygons ), into which local mapping surveying measurements, usually with measuring tape, corner prism and the familiar red and white poles, are tied.
NASA engineers were able to recover the damaged tape recorder electronics, and Galileo continued to return scientific data until it was deorbited in 2003, performing one last scientific experiment — a measurement of the moon Amalthea's mass as the spacecraft swung by it.
Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.
Early systems could not support one, since programs were prepared using flowcharts, entering programs with punched cards ( or paper tape, etc.

tape and often
BITC is sometimes used in conjunction with " real " machine-readable timecode, but more often used in copies of original material on to a non-broadcast format such as VHS, so that the VHS copies can be traced back to their master tape and the original time codes easily located.
The term " storage " is often ( but not always ) used in separate computers of traditional secondary memory such as tape, magnetic disks and optical discs ( CD-ROM and DVD-ROM ).
Coils are often coated with varnish or wrapped with insulating tape to provide additional insulation and secure them in place.
The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, and often replaced with a modified Friden Flexowriter, which also contained its own punch tape system.
DJs and remixers would often remix ( that is, re-edit ) existing songs using reel-to-reel tape machines.
A very popular type of system for reproducing music from the 1970s onwards was the integrated music centre which combined phonograph, radio tuner, tape player, preamp and power amplifier in one package, often sold with its own separate, detachable or integrated speakers.
The extents of minefields are often marked with warning signs and cloth tape, to prevent friendly troops and non-combatants from entering them.
" Bureaucratic procedures are not always transparent and red tape often makes processing unnecessarily long ," reports the U. S. Department of Commerce.
PAL-8 assembly language source code was often stored on paper tape, read into memory, and saved to paper tape.
In WWE, a referee must see the violation with his own eyes to rule that the match end in a disqualification ( simply watching the video tape is not usually enough ) and the referee's ruling is almost always final, although dusty finishes ( named after, and made famous by, Dusty Rhodes ) will often result in the referee's decision being overturned.
Magnetic tape or disk " card-image " files created from such card decks often had no line-separation characters at all, commonly assuming fixed-length 80-character records.
* is the blank symbol ( the only symbol allowed to occur on the tape infinitely often at any step during the computation )
These drives are often referred to as tape streamers.
The teleprinter circuit was often linked to a 5-bit paper tape punch ( or " reperforator ") and reader, allowing messages received to be resent on another circuit.
The ability to record high-quality sound on magnetic tape also created opportunities, as has the proliferation of home computers capable of recording, often using inexpensive even free software and a microphone of reasonable quality.
This is often used in production, where different entities may want to encode different sets of time-code metadata on the same tape.
Submarine communications cables are particularly subject to the problem, but early 20th century ones using balanced pairs were often continuously loaded by iron tape rather than discretely by load coils.
The type of tape used in for this purpose often depends upon the ink that is to be printed onto the substrate.
Coloured tape placed under climbing holds is another way that is often used to mark different climbing routes.
Duct tape, or duck tape, is cloth-or scrim-backed pressure sensitive tape often coated with polyethylene.

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