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Treybig and team
Treybig first saw the market need for fault tolerance in OLTP ( online transaction processing ) systems while running a marketing team for Hewlett Packard's HP 3000 computer division, but HP was not interested in developing for this niche.

Treybig and .
Tandem Computers was founded in 1974 by James ( Jimmy ) Treybig, a loquacious Texan.
Jimmy Treybig remained CEO and energetic center of the company he founded until a downturn in 1996.
Kleiner invested in Tandem Computers, an early manufacturer of computer systems, founded in 1975 by Jimmy Treybig.
James ( Jimmy ) Treybig founded Tandem Computers, a pioneering Silicon Valley manufacturer of fault tolerant computer systems which were marketed to the growing number of transaction processing customers who used them for ATMs, banks, stock exchanges and other similar needs.
Treybig was featured in the documentary film Something Ventured which premiered in 2011.

pulled and together
He straightened himself, soldierly against the wall, and pulled his sprawled feet together so they stood side by side in their old boots.
Mike and the Anniston pitcher were pulled away before they even came together.
Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.
Also, if laced together with rope instead of wire, the rope can be very quickly destroyed by such fires, after which the abatis can be quickly pulled apart by grappling hooks thrown from a safe distance.
Campbell-Bannerman tried to keep these forces together at the head of a moderate Liberal rump, but in 1901 he delivered a speech on the government's " methods of barbarism " in South Africa that pulled him further to the left and nearly tore the party in two.
These associations formed early in the universe, as clumps of dark matter pulled their respective galaxies together.
2 days later on April 1, 2001, Oklahoma police officer C. L. Parkins pulled Hazmi over for speeding in their Corolla along with an additional citation for failing to use a seatbelt together totaling $ 138.
For seventy years, the CPSU had been the cohesive force that kept the union together ; without the authority of the party in the Soviet center, the nationalities of the constituent republics pulled harder than ever to break away from the union.
Clouds are pulled together by its wingbeats, the sound of thunder made by its wings clapping, sheet lightning the light flashing from its eyes when it blinks, and individual lightning bolts made by the glowing snakes that it carries around with it.
But once he was there, he pulled the whole story together, and soon he pulled the six other Narnian stories in after him.
For a jump with counterclockwise rotation, the left leg should be crossed in front of the right at the ankles, with the feet together, the arms pulled into the chest and the head turned to look over the left shoulder.
Nearly half of all Roman legions had to be pulled together to end the revolt, which was triggered by neglect, endemic food shortages ( since 22 BCE, following a political crisis in 23 BCE and riots in 22, 21 and 19 BCE, ended after 8 CE ), high taxes and harsh behavior of the tax collectors.
However when used for 3D the left and right frames are pulled down together, thus the standard 4-perf pulldown is retained, minimising the need for modifications to the projector or to long-play systems.
Miranda laughed again and quickly pulled herself together, finishing the show.
Jupiter's moon Metis and Saturn's moon Pan are examples of such satellites, which hold together because of their tensile strength ( that is, they are solid and not easily pulled apart ).
These threads were pulled together in June 1978 by three friends Jean-Claude Bétemps, André Bohn and Gérard Bosson from Mieussy Haute-Savoie, France.
Spatial locality is improved because elements with consecutive memory addresses tend to be pulled up the memory hierarchy together.
However, after a " players only " meeting, the team pulled together a 12-game win streak ( 10 of them by double-digits ) and limited the opposition under 100 points in all those games.
These mesh repair methods are often called " tension free " repairs because, unlike some suture methods ( e. g. Shouldice ), muscle is not pulled together under tension.
A Sense of Wonder, Morrison's 1985 album, pulled together the spiritual themes contained in his last four albums, which were defined in a Rolling Stone review as: " rebirth ( Into the Music ), deep contemplation and meditation, ( Common One ); ecstasy and humility ( Beautiful Vision ); and blissful, mantra like languor ( Inarticulate Speech of the Heart ).
Other requirements are a pattern of some kind, some brown gummed tape ( IE as the moistened glue dries it causes the tape to shrink and so the veneer pieces are pulled closer together ), PVA glue and a base-board with balancing veneers on the alternate face to compensate stresses.
Miranda laughed again and quickly pulled herself together and finished the show.
The Europeans pulled together behind the UK and the best the Africans could get was a call for support for the New African Initiative, debt relief, funds to combat AIDS, the recovery of stolen government funds transferred to the West by former dictators and their cohorts, and an end to the trafficking in people.
The community pulled together with its volunteer labor and donated timber from virgin pines in Bear Creek.

pulled and core
George Wallace pulled off the majority of Southern whites, for a century the core of the Solid South in the Democratic Party.
In the end, Superboy-Prime is pulled into the core of a red sun by both Superman of Earth-Two and Superman ( Kal-El ) of the main DC Universe.
The Daleks, overwhelmed by the magnetism, are pulled into the Earth's core and destroyed.
During tests on low power, with low coolant flux through the core, the supervisor noticed several control rods being pulled from the core, and found an operator in the basement opening pneumatic valves.
The core can be pulled from a lock, which can often be repaired at lower cost than replacing a door and jamb damaged by other, more energetic entry methods.
It has a hard, stringy core, and after cooking, the edible flesh is pulled off from the core.
If the reactor vessel developed excessive heat or lost electric power to the air cooling, the plug would melt ; the FLiBe would be pulled out of the reactor core by gravity and criticality would cease as the salt lost contact with the graphite.
This is because, while asteroids and the Earth congealed from the same starting materials, Earth's massive gravity pulled all such heavy siderophilic ( iron-loving ) elements into the planet's core during its molten youth more than four billion years ago.
Many of the early issues in this series were pulled together to form the core of his first book The Advanced HTML Companion in 1997.
The core of the pyramids came from stone quarried in the area already while the limestone, now eroded away, that was used to face the pyramids came from the other side of the Nile River and had to be quarried, ferried across, and cut during the dry season before they could be pulled into place on the pyramid.

pulled and engineering
The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.
On the evening of 9 December 2008, the then Fianna Fáil minister Éamon Ó Cuív was on the campus for the official launch of a new € 50 million engineering building in place of his fellow minister Batt O ' Keeffe, who had pulled out due to his fears that he would encounter violence.
The project was canceled after two days of testing for the first car, in mid-1999, mostly due to Porsche's wish to build the Cayenne SUV with involvement from Volkswagen and Audi, thus requiring engineering expertise to be pulled from the motorsports division.
Sample pilings pulled up were found to be of the length specified in the design, but it was then revealed that this length was less than the actual depth of the canal, in retrospect an obvious engineering mistake.

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