With focus on performance-oriented keyboards and digital computer technology, manufacturers of commercial electronic instruments created some of the earliest digital synthesizers for studio and experimental use with computers being able to handle built-in sound synthesis algorithms.

Databases have been in use since the earliest days of electronic computing.

Vacuum tubes were one of the earliest electronic components.

The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

The earliest versions, however, especially those models with the Bosch K-Jetronic ( CIS ) injection system, have few electronic components and therefore can be repaired more easily provided spare parts can be found.

Phased array radars have been in use since the earliest years of radar in World War II, but electronic device limitations led to poor performance.

One of the earliest person who recognized the possibility of Vocoder / Voder on the electronic music may be Werner Meyer-Eppler, a German physicist / experimental acoustician / phoneticist.

Batch processing has been associated with mainframe computers since the earliest days of electronic computing in the 1950s.

His earliest compositions in the medium, e. g. Chef d ' Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music.

Tangerine Dream's earliest concerts were visually simple by modern standards, with three men sitting motionless for hours alongside massive electronic boxes festooned with patch cords and a few flashing lights.

EDVAC ( Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer ) was one of the earliest electronic computers.

* Telephone broadcasting ( 1881 – 1932 ): the earliest form of electronic broadcasting ( not counting data services offered by stock telegraph companies from 1867, if ticker-tapes are excluded from the definition ).

One of the earliest electronic photocomposition systems was introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor.

Joan D. Vinge also uses demarchy in the sense of electronic direct democracy in her 1978 novel The Outcasts of Heaven Belt ( later incorporated into The Heaven Chronicles ), perhaps the earliest use of the term.

Electro music refers to electro and techno, these two genres largely featured psychedelic sounds and are largely considered the earliest forms of electronic dance music genres to utilise the term " rave music " in respect to its modern terminological use.

Several states had already enacted laws on the subject of electronic legal documents and signatures before the U. S. Congress had acted, including Utah, Washington, and California to name only a few of the earliest.

One of the earliest academic studies of turntablism ( White 1996 ) argued for its designation as a legitimate electronic musical instrument — a manual analog sampler — and described turntable techniques such as backspinning, cutting, scratching and blending as basic tools for most hip hop DJs.

The earliest identity "= cw4t7abs " ( antiorp @ tezcat. com ) surfaced in 1995 on mailing lists and newsgroups relating to electronic music production ( for instance, the Kurzweil K2000 music synthesizer ) and related Usenet groups ( rec. music. makers. synth ), rendering them speechless with spiralling messages saturated in a dense fogginess of code-poetry, abstract ASCII art as well as exceptionally focused personal engagement.

Their earliest performances were Dada-influenced performance art, but Cabaret Voltaire later developed into one of the most prolific and important groups to blend pop with dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental electronic music.

The earliest known example of this was Sega's 1980 arcade game Carnival, which used an AY-3-8910 chip to create an electronic rendition of the classical 1889 composition " Over The Waves " by Juventino Rosas.

The earliest use of electronic digital computers for medicine was for dental projects in the 1950s at the United States National Bureau of Standards by Robert Ledley.

While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke ; a further influence was the dance hit " Anthem " by the house music group N-Joi.

Some of the earliest electronic television systems such as the British 405-line ( system A ) used positive modulation.

Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970.

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

Perhaps the earliest prototype for a law of government, this document itself has not yet been discovered ; however it is known that it allowed some rights to his citizens.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

The earliest Chinese document mentioning a crossbow is in scripts from the 4th – 3rd century BC attributed to the followers of Mozi.

The earliest document mentioning a Barnabas gospel which is generally agreed to correspond with the one found in the two known manuscripts is reported to be contained in Morisco manuscript BNM MS 9653 in Madrid, written about 1634 by Ibrahim al-Taybili in Tunisia.

*: 1951: Philip Bagley conducted the earliest experiment in computerized document retrieval in a master thesis at MIT.

The earliest Laos legal document ( and the earliest sociological evidence about the existence of the Lao people ) is known as " the laws of Khun Borom " ( also spelled " Khun Bulom "), still preserved in manuscript form .< ref >

The next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century, but which has more recently been dated to the later 4th century.

The year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date, which is only the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document.

1780 BC ), which is one of the earliest sets of laws found and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia.

Nazara ( Ναζαρά ) might be the earliest form of the name in Greek, going back to the putative Q document.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

An almost independent commune was created around 1140 ; a treaty between Parma and Piacenza of 1149 is the earliest document of a comune headed by consuls.

The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord ," for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, " Do not give that which is holy to dogs.

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 ".

* An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.

600, the earliest document which survives in sustained Old English prose ; however, the witan was certainly in existence long before this time.

He also investigated the use of lenses as projectors and should be credited as the earliest inventor, developer and designer of the Magic Lantern rather than German scholar Athanasius Kircher who merely used much of Huygens research ( often quite inaccurately ) to document and publish on the subject.

It is considered the earliest authentic Christian document outside of the New Testament.

Imhotep is also believed to have founded Egyptian medicine, being the author of the world's earliest known medical document, the Edwin Smith Papyrus.

The earliest known document in the Gujarātī script is a handwritten manuscript dating from 1592, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement.