The term derives from tablet inscriptions appended by a scribe to the end of an ancient Near East ( e. g., Early / Middle / Late Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite ) text such as a chapter, book, manuscript, or record.

Early pocket sized ones were joined in the late 2000s by larger but otherwise similar tablet computers.

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Early models had single or multi-wick lamps or vapourising spirit burners but in the mid 1970s the company changed to hexamine solid fuel which came in tablet form and provided low heat in a relatively safe form.

Early computers used a variety of 4-bit binary coded decimal ( BCD ) representations and the 6-bit codes for printable graphic patterns common in the U. S. Army ( Fieldata ) and Navy.

Early computers used one of two addressing methods to access the system memory ; binary ( base 2 )

Early personal computers like the Apple II and the IBM PC integrated an internal backplane for expansion cards.

Early computers permitted only a few letters or digits in the name of a file, but modern computers allow long names ( some up to 255 characters ) containing almost any combination of unicode letters or unicode digits, making it easier to understand the purpose of a file at a glance.

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Early personal computers such as the Apple II or IBM PC included only this minimal peripheral support on the motherboard.

Early computers required specialist programmers, and stringent operating environmental control for temperature, cleanliness, and power quality.

Early personal computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as those from Apple, Atari and Commodore, did not use RGB as their main method to manage colors, but rather composite video.

Early computers used a variety of ad-hoc methods to get a fragment of software into memory to solve this problem.

Early computers ( such as the IBM 650, DEC PDP-5 through PDP-8, early models of the PDP-11, and early microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 ) have a row of dials or toggle switches on the front panel that allow the operator to manually enter the boot instructions into memory before transferring control to the CPU.

Early networks were built without computers, but late in the 20th century their switching centers were computerized or the networks replaced with computer networks.

Early computers had relatively little memory.

# Early computer designs and some of the simpler RISC computers " hard-wired " the complete instruction set decoding and sequencing ( just like the rest of the microarchitecture ).

Early desktop computers are designed to lay flat on the desk, while modern towers stand upright.

Early personal computers, like the IBM PC, were " desktop " machines, with a horizontally oriented computer case, usually intended to have the display screen placed on top to save space on the desktop.

Early computers took up the space of a room.

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Early home computers often had proprietary serial ports with pinouts and voltage levels incompatible with RS-232.

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Early UNIVAC 1100 series models were vacuum tube computers.

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Early dirigible developments included machine-powered propulsion ( Henri Giffard, 1852 ), rigid frames ( David Schwarz, 1896 ), and improved speed and maneuverability ( Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1901 )

Early video chipsets featuring AGP support included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX / 2.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

Early street railways on Broadway included the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad's Broadway and University Place Line ( 1864?

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

Early copies included a bonus CD of live material.

Early forms of cartography of India included the locations of the Pole star and other constellations of use.

Early labels, most now-defunct, included Blonde Vinyl, Frontline, Exit, and Refuge.

Early researchers of clairvoyance included William Gregory ( chemist ), Gustav Pagenstecher, and Rudolf Tischner.

Early bassists for the group included Ron Crotty, Bob Bates, and Bob's brother Norman Bates ; Lloyd Davis and Joe Dodge held the drum chair.

Early projects in this vein included Everything2 and Open Site.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Early efforts included simple carbon copies but that proved insufficient.

Early American grind practitioners included Terrorizer and Assück.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

Early uses for sulphuric acid included pickling ( removing rust ) iron and steel, and for bleaching cloth.

Early pesticide development included Gramoxone ( 1962, a herbicide ), the insecticides pirimiphos-methyl in 1967 and pirimicarb in 1970, brodifacoum ( a rodenticide ) was developed in 1974 ; in the late 1970s, ICI was involved in the early development of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides such as lambda-cyhalothrin.

Early makers of jazz guitars included Gibson, Epiphone, D ' Angelico and Stromberg.

Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

Early commercial products included Gemstone ( Servio Logic, name changed to GemStone Systems ), Gbase ( Graphael ), and Vbase ( Ontologic ).

Early Ontario punk bands included The Diodes, The Viletones, The Battered Wives, The Demics, Forgotten Rebels, Teenage Head, The Poles, and The Ugly.