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.

The first low-cost MIDI sampler was the Ensoniq Mirage, introduced in 1984.

The first printed pattern book was produced in 1523, but they were not easily obtainable and a sampler was the most common form of reference available to many women.

Some inventions and discoveries to come out of Berkeley Lab include: " smart " windows with embedded electrodes that enable window glass to respond to changes in sunlight, synthetic genes for antimalaria and anti-AIDS superdrugs based on breakthroughs in synthetic biology, electronic ballasts for more efficient lighting, Home Energy Saver, the web's first do-it-yourself home energy audit tool, a pocket-sized DNA sampler called the PhyloChip, and the Berkeley Darfur Stove, which uses one-quarter as much firewood as traditional cook stoves.

During Toon Disney's first year on the air, Disney Channel ran a sampler block of Toon Disney programming on Sunday nights for interested subscribers.

The first buyers of the new system were Peter Gabriel, Richard James Burgess of Landscape ( who demonstrated it to many British musicians and on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World ), Iva Davies of Icehouse, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, In the US, Jackson demonstrated the Series I sampler for a year before selling units to Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder in 1980 for US $ 27, 500 each.

In the United States, a new sampler company called Ensoniq introduced the Ensoniq Mirage in 1985, at a price that made sampling affordable to the average musician for the first time.

In the same way that a sampler has much in common with a synthesizer, software samplers are in many ways similar to software synthesizers and there is great deal of overlap between the two, but whereas a software synthesizer generates sounds algorithmically from mathematically-described tones or short-term waveforms ( i. e., less than 100 ms in length ), a software sampler always reproduces samples, often much longer than a second, as the first step of its algorithm.

The first product released by the new subsidiary, the S612 12-bit digital sampler, was the first in a series of ( relatively ) affordable samplers already in 19 " studio-rack format but in black color.

Their first single, " I'll Kill You " was released on Dada Records in June and the band contributed " Break the Darkness " to the sampler Heavy Metal Force III in November, which also featured a song by Saver Tiger.

He first delved into electronic music in 1989, when he bought a digital sampler.

With this came the first in a series of affordable samplers, the S612, a 12 bit digital sampler module.

The Akai S900 ( 1986 ) was the first truly affordable digital sampler.

It is also the first time a sampler with touch sensitive trigger pads was produced by AKAI, giving birth to the popular MPC series of sampler sequencers.

* NN-19 Digital Sampler – The NN-19 device is Reason's original sampler, introduced in the first version.

Their first release was a contribution to the sampler 20 schäumende Stimmungshits ( rough translation: " 20 foamy party hits "), featuring a strong alcohol theme ( for example, the chorus of " Vollmilch " translates as " you drink whiskey, he drinks beer, I drink milk ").

Elektra Records released the first sampler albums: in the 1950s.

In 1979 they created the Fairlight CMI, the first digital audio sampler, quickly used by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Jean Michel Jarre.

The music was composed by Slava Tsukerman, Clive Smith and Brenda Hutchinson using the Fairlight CMI, the first digital sampler / synthesizer.

When the ESQ-1 was first produced it was marketed as an affordable workstation synthesizer and was a follow up to the earlier and relatively successful Ensoniq Mirage sampler.

The company launched the K250 synthesizer / sampler in 1984: while limited by today's standards and quite expensive, it was considered to be the first really successful attempt to emulate the complex sound of a grand piano.

Between the first and second A & M albums, in 1969, a rare publishing sampler was recorded (" Strawberry Music Sampler No. 1 ").