Realizing the potential for the market, Inoue made a tape recorder-like machine that played songs for a 100-yen coin each.

A basic karaoke machine consists of a music player, microphone inputs, a means of altering the pitch of the played music, and an audio output.

Maxon Corporation, developed a 50-pound machine which played Nim against a human opponent and regularly won.

In American English, " phonograph ", properly specific to machines made by Edison, was sometimes used in a generic sense as early as the 1890s to include cylinder-playing machines made by others, but it was then considered strictly incorrect to apply it to the upstart Gramophone, a very different machine which played discs.

" Talking machine " was the comprehensive generic term, but in the early 20th Century the general public was increasingly applying the word " phonograph " indiscriminately to both cylinder and disc machines and to the records they played.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

The worksheet also indicates the reel strip settings, number of coins that may be played, the payout schedule, the number of reels and other information descriptive of the particular type of slot machine.

Having access to the PRNG code and seed values Ronald Dale Harris, a former slot machine programmer, discovered equations for specific gambling games like Keno that allowed him to predict what the next set of selected numbers would be based on the previous games played.

Most machines are designed to defeat this by generating numbers even when the machine is not being played, so the player cannot tell where in the sequence they are, even if he knows how the machine was programmed.

The winning patterns on slot machines – the amounts they pay and the frequencies of those payouts – are carefully selected to yield a certain fraction of the money played to the " house " ( the operator of the slot machine ), while returning the rest to the players during play.

* The VCD format has no region coding, so discs can be played on any compatible machine worldwide.

Dewey played a key role in convincing Eisenhower to run against Taft, and when Eisenhower became a candidate Dewey used his powerful political machine to win Eisenhower the support of delegates in New York and elsewhere.

Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the livingroom, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big ( swamp land found to have oil under it, etc .).

Frequently exhibitors would equip many of these machines with listening tubes ( acoustic headphones ) and array them in " phonograph parlors " allowing the patron to select between multiple records, each played on its own machine.

Song-popularity counters told the owner of the machine the number of times each record was played ( A and B side were generally not distinguished ), with the result that popular records remained, while lesser-played songs could be replaced.

Wells ( played by Malcolm McDowell ) has named his time machine " Argo.

Kramnik played a six-game match against the computer program Deep Fritz in Bonn, Germany from 25 November to 5 December 2006, losing 2-4 to the machine, with 2 losses and 4 draws.

The coins collected are used in a slot machine mini-game played between stages.

It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine.

After the draw, the machine pays out if the hand or hands played match one of the winning combinations, which are posted in the pay table.

The VHD discs were initially handled by the operator and played on a machine that looked like an audio LP turntable, but JVC used caddy-housed discs when the system was marketed.

* Buddy Sorrell ( Maurice Sorrell ; played by Morey Amsterdam ) – an energetic ( and at times facetious ) " human joke machine ", one of the comedy writers.

Henry Maudslay played his part in the development of mechanical engineering when it was in its infancy, but he was especially pioneering in the development of machine tools to be used in engineering workshops across the world.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

This machine, operating at speeds up to 350,000 revolutions per minute, is believed to provide one of the fastest mechanical operations in industry today.

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

Minsky's machine proceeds sequentially through its five ( or six depending on how one counts ) instructions unless either a conditional IF – THEN GOTO or an unconditional GOTO changes program flow out of sequence.

The machine could be fed two linear equations with up to twenty-nine variables and a constant term and eliminate one of the variables.

Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one chip, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period — to the extent that some shops reported eight presales for every delivered machine.

To join an existing network, one simply plugged in the adaptor and connected a cable to the nearest free machine.

If another machine has that address, it will pick another address, and keep trying until it finds a free one.

As long as the machines were synchronized, the mix would sound more-or-less normal, but if the operator placed his finger on the flange of one of the players ( hence " flanger "), that machine would slow down and its signal would fall out-of-phase with its partner, producing a phasing effect.

A typical machine will have two lamps, one will take care of five elements and the other will handle four elements for a total of nine elements analyzed.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

This most commonly refers to matched pairs of handguns but can refer to any other weapon that can be held in one hand such as machine pistols and even melee weapons, although this is more common in role-playing video games.

An accumulator machine, also called a 1-operand machine, or a CPU with accumulator-based architecture, is a kind of CPU where, although it may have several registers, the CPU mostly stores the results of calculations in one special register, typically called " the accumulator ".

The IBM 650, a decimal machine, had one 10 digit accumulator ; the IBM 7070, a later, transistorized decimal machine had three accumulators.

Cards are dealt either from one or two hand-held decks, from a dealer's shoe, or from a shuffling machine.

Their machine instruction sets favored one or many high level programming languages, such as ALGOL, COBOL or FORTRAN.

:" A computable number one for which there is a Turing machine which, given n on its initial tape, terminates with the nth digit of that number on its tape.

A server machine is a host that is running one or more server programs which share their resources with clients.