Originally slated to be available in 1981, the Keyboard Component was repeatedly delayed as the engineers tried to find ways to overcome the reliability issues and reduce manufacturing costs.

Originally an agricultural market town, the construction of the Erie Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ) in the 1840s made Binghamton the commercial and then the manufacturing hub of the Southern Tier of New York and the adjacent counties in Pennsylvania.

Originally manufacturing yo-yos from wood, yo-yo technology improved in the 1960s when the industry switched to plastic.

Originally a chemical weapons manufacturing facility for World War II, the arsenal became the focal point of the Army ’ s rocket and space projects, including development of the first U. S. ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles in the 1950s.

Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, called Wrights Crossroads, the Reidsville community grew from a single home and inn owned by the family of Reuben Reid ( a local farmer, businessman, and justice of the peace who was the father of David S. Reid ) into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing.

Originally named Jeffers and then Blaney, the town renamed itself Elgin after the Elgin National Watch Company relocated its manufacturing facility to the town from Elgin, Illinois in 1963.

Originally incorporated as Dupontonia in 1959 ( in reference to the DuPont rayon manufacturing facility located nearby ), the city changed its name to Lakewood and reincorporated in 1961.

Originally working as a milkman, he founded MacRae and Company Hosiery four years later, manufacturing underwear under the brand name Fortitude ( taken from his family crest ).

Originally they had intended to award the production to a larger company with better manufacturing abilities, as the Van Nuys plant wouldn't be able to build the 1, 500 engines quickly enough.

Originally manufacturing gas from coal, the plant began to manufacture gas from oil in the 1960s.

* Mascotte ( Netherlands 1858 ) Originally made from paper used in the manufacturing of Bibles.

Originally an agriculturally based economy, Dufferin's economy has diversified to include commercial and retail businesses, industries related to residential and commercial construction ( building, supplies, aggregates, real estate ) and manufacturing.

Originally, the Aska was a version of GM's J-car produced by Isuzu, but later, after Isuzu pulled out of manufacturing passenger cars, the nameplate was applied to rebadged Subaru Legacies ( 1990 to 1994 ) and Honda Accords ( 1994 to 2002 ) sold through Isuzu's Japanese distribution network.

Originally the workshops serviced and repaired the growing NSW rail fleet, but in 1908 Eveleigh began manufacturing steam locomotives.

Originally a home to manufacturing industries, the suburb had its beginnings as a residential area in the 1870s.

Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments of its supply chain.

Originally popular with artists, they are now highly sought-after by other bohemians, and the gentrification of the former manufacturing sectors of medium to large cities is now a familiar pattern.

Originally, manufacturing operations built custom software programs that ran on mainframes.

Originally named DJ Icee, he had to change his name because a local Orlando ice cream manufacturing company by the same name threatened to sue him.

Originally incorporated in New Jersey but operating in Brooklyn, the company began by manufacturing cigarette, baking, and stitching machines.

Originally, all of the manufacturing and sales operations were conducted in Australia, but in 1998 full production moved to new facilities in Kepong, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.

Originally, EcoDuro built its own manufacturing, but after the product was developed, changed its model to contract manufacturing using regional partners who already had paper honeycomb capabilities and expertise.

Originally, its objectives were only to produce common certification codes for large aeroplanes and for engines in order to meet the needs of European industry and international consortia ( e. g., Airbus ).

Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.

Originally the company was to be called " R. E. Olds Motor Car Company ," but the owner of Olds ' previous company, then called Olds Motor Works, objected and threatened legal action on the grounds of likely confusion of names by consumers.

Originally, the ACD function was internal to the Private Branch Exchange of the company.

Originally written for SunOS ( a variant of UNIX ) on Sun machines, FrameMaker was a popular technical writing tool, and the company was profitable early on.

Originally a flying school operator the company took on maintenance work in 1938.

Originally Westland Aircraft, the company focused on helicopters after the Second World War.

Originally an industrial pigment supply company, Crayola soon shifted its focus to art products for home and school use, beginning with chalk, then crayons, followed later by colored pencils, markers, paints, modeling clay, and other related goods.

Originally heated by slow-burning coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén ( 1869 – 1937 ), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company ( Swedish: Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, English: Joint stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator ).

Originally called Flintstown, it was granted in 1774 by the Massachusetts General Court to survivors of Captain John Flint's company of soldiers from Concord, Massachusetts.

Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then called " desktop publishing ", the TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.

Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the collectible card game genre with Magic: The Gathering in the mid-1990s, acquired the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by purchasing the failing company TSR, and experienced tremendous success by publishing the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Originally the company only published role-playing games such as the third edition of Talislanta and its own The Primal Order.

Originally Atmel Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company designing EPROMs and PLDs that were manufactured by Sanyo.

Originally named the " Lyon Tower ", it was originally occupied as the headquarters of property company Ronald Lyon Holdings but has also been known as " The Vortex " and the " Brown & Root Tower ".

Originally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new Amiga hardware, managed by Eyetech and designed by the German company Escena GmbH.

Originally only planned as a temporarily measure, the company never became operational again and was officially dissolved in 1999.

By 1976 John “ Jay ” David ( ex Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ) had replaced Franz on drums, and they issued a single “ Bar in my Car ”, on Buffalo Records, but the record company “ tanked as soon as the record came out .” Originally titled " I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car ( And Drive Myself to Drink )", the song appears on numerous internet lists of " worst country song titles " as being from their album Fear of Frying, but this is incorrect.

Originally called the Saudan Couloir by local skiers even before it was part of the ski area, the company eventually had to drop the name when extreme skier Sylvain Saudan complained about the unauthorised use of his name.

Originally Marylebone is said to have been planned as a ten-platform station, but the cost of building the GCR was far higher than expected and nearly bankrupted the company, causing the station to be scaled back to just four platforms, three within the train shed and one west of the train shed ( platform 4 ).

Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then Vauxhall Iron Works from 1897, the company built pumps and marine engines.

Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector.