The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

The Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) was the first electronic digital computing device.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

George W. Snedecor, the head of Iowa State's Statistics Department, was very likely the first user of an electronic digital computer to solve real world mathematics problems.

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device, the ENIAC.

Judge Larson explicitly stated, " Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff ".

The first digital computers used machine-language programming to set up and access array structures for data tables, vector and matrix computations, and for many other purposes.

It had simple digital joysticks and was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600, the first console to have backward compatibility without the use of additional modules.

In the early 1960s, AT & T introduced digital telephony first on long-distance trunk lines.

The second revision, published in 1837, was the first digital ( binary ) form of writing.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

" At first only very basic non-specialized digital circuits such as NOR gates were miniaturized into ICs.

With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

Meanwhile, Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976.

Some of the earliest animation done using a digital computer was done at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the first half of the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll.

Steven Sasson, an electrical engineer working for Kodak, invented the first digital still camera using a Fairchild CCD in 1975.

The first electronic programmable digital computer, the ENIAC, using thousands of octal-base radio vacuum tubes, could perform simple calculations involving 20 numbers of ten decimal digits which were held in the vacuum tube accumulators.

For example, when an ordinary RGB digital image is compressed via the JPEG standard, the RGB colorspace is first converted ( by a rotation matrix ) to a YCbCr colorspace, because the three components in that space have less correlation redundancy and because the chrominance components can then be subsampled by a factor of 2 or 4 to further compress the image.

The world's first digital computer music was generated in Australia by programmer Geoff Hill on the CSIRAC computer which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard, although it was only used to play standard tunes of the day.

The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analog electrical components, with a few digital controllers.

A good example from the late 1980s was the Ordnance Survey's first digital maps, where the absolute positions of major roads were sometimes a scale distance of hundreds of metres away from ground truth, when shown on digital maps at scales of 1: 250, 000 and 1: 625, 000, because of the overriding need to annotate the features.

SuperVision is the first digital cable television in Mongolia and other CATVs are planning to launch digital cable television with CA systems.

In 1980, Yamaha eventually released the first FM digital synthesizer, the Yamaha GS-1, but at an expensive retail price of $ 16, 000.

He received the first fax patent in 1843.

In the 1960s, the United States Army transmitted the first photograph via satellite facsimile (" fax ") to Puerto Rico from the Deal Test Site using the Courier satellite.

1964 was a landmark year when the Xerox Corporation introduced ( and patented ) what many consider to be the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine, under the name ( LDX ) or Long Distance Xerography.

The first sub-minute, digital fax machine was developed by Dacom, which built on digital data compression technology originally developed at Lockheed for satellite communication.

Xerox continued to refine the fax machine for years after their ground-breaking first machine.

Prior to the introduction of the ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a drum.

In 1985, Dr. Ayaz Asmat, founder of GammaLink, produced the first computer fax board, called GammaFax.

The Dacom DFC-10-the first digital fax machine.

In 1995, fax, data and SMS messaging services were launched commercially, the first 1900 MHz GSM network became operational in the United States and GSM subscribers worldwide exceeded 10 million.

A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.

The first images transmitted electrically were sent by early mechanical fax machines, including the pantelegraph, developed in the late nineteenth century.

The teleostereograph machine, a forerunner to the modern electronic fax, was developed by AT & T's Bell Labs in the 1920s ; however, the first commercial use of image facsimile telegraph devices dates back to the time of Samuel F. B. Morse's invention in the 1800s.

In addition, the SARS coverup was first revealed by a fax to CCTV which was forwarded to Western news media.

Each contact entry usually consists of a few standard fields ( for example: first name, last name, company name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number ).

This offer came just one day after Buffet had first learned about the company from a fax received at his office which detailed why Forest River would be a solid acquisition for Berkshire.

By this time, Australian surveillance had observed that the ship's passengers had fashioned signs that read " SOS " and ' HELP " on the ship's deck and, in response, further attempts were made to contact BASARNAS, first by fax and then through the defence attaché in Jakarta.

The first service branded " eFax " was created by British-born entrepreneur Mark Oglesby in early 1997, providing a service to integrate email with existing fax technology.

JetFax was founded by Lon Radin and Rudy Prince in 1988 and was recognized by some as the first company to perfect the laser fax machine, replacing the heat-treated fax machines prominent in the 1980s.

The first personal computer fax board, GammaFax, was produced in 1985 by GammaLink.

On Saturday, May 14, 1994, the mother of Kimberly Anne sent the first of two fax fliers to South Daytona Beach Police Department from her home in Oxnard, California.

In the 1990s, Pitney Bowes continued to innovate in the field of digital technologies and software, introducing the AddressRight address & barcode printer ( 1991 ), the first in-line weighing and metering system ( 1992 ), the first secure digital postage meter ( 1995 ), the first ink jet postage meter ( 1996 ) and the Digital Document Deliver ( D3 ) platform ( 1998 ) which provides message management via hard copy, web, email and fax.