We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.

The Canon Pocketronic was a development of the " Cal-Tech " project which had been started at Texas Instruments in 1965 as a research project to produce a portable calculator.

As a result of the " Cal-Tech " project, Texas Instruments was granted master patents on portable calculators.

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, complained that the company was slow in moving ClearType to market in the portable computing field.

The first portable color television, the General Electric Porta-Color, was designed using 13 tubes, 10 of which were Compactrons.

Cinéma vérité ( or the closely related direct cinema ) was dependent on some technical advances in order to exist: light, quiet and reliable cameras, and portable sync sound.

The electric bass was easily amplified with its built-in pickups, easily portable ( less than a foot longer than an electric guitar ), and easier to play in tune, thanks to the metal frets.

The zinc-manganese dioxide dry cell was the first portable, non-spillable battery type that made flashlights and other portable devices practical.

Forth became very popular in the 1980s because it was well suited to the small microcomputers of that time, as it is compact and portable.

Designed to be portable, it was ported to many platforms, which helped its survival.

One of the early ( and portable ) languages that had 4GL properties was Ramis developed by Gerald C. Cohen at Mathematica, a mathematical software company.

This was a small, portable, mechanical calculator that was about the size of a pepper grinder.

Photography was gaining popularity, and as cameras became more portable, photographs became more candid.

One of the first " clone " versions of MultiMate was bundled with an early portable PC made by Corona.

The 6510 was only widely used in the Commodore 64 home computer ( and in significantly smaller numbers in the C64's portable version, the SX-64 ).

Given these issues, Microsoft started to work in parallel on a version of Windows which was more future-oriented and more portable.

The goal was a common portable and interoperable object model with methods and data that work using all types of development environments on all types of platforms.

Its goal was to create a set of specifications that would allow for portable applications that store objects in database management systems.

It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data ( CD-ROM ), write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R ), rewritable media ( CD-RW ), Video Compact Discs ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Discs ( SVCD ), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.

The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

There was no copy protection on any of the PC-FX games, because at the time the system was released, the high price of CD-R burners and blank CDs made piracy expensive.

MiniDisc technology was faced with new competition from the recordable compact disc ( CD-R ) when it became more affordable to consumers in 1995.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

By the year 2000, King Biscuit was using CD-R media to distribute the show.

A fourth song, " Overload ", was included on the CD-R promotional copies of the EP.

By 2000, the entire removable magnetic disk category quickly faced obsolescence by the falling prices of CD-R and CD-RW drives and solid-state ( USB flash drives or USB keydrives ), and the SuperDisk was no exception ; it has since been quietly discontinued, as were the other special disks, which are becoming hard to find.

The album was out-of-print for a long time due to being in " legal limbo ", during which time Houston would sell the album in CD-R format directly through her website.

; Unstructured: An unstructured repository may simply be a stack of floppy disks or CD-R / DVD-R media with minimal information about what was backed up and when.

Since affordable CD-R was not available until 1995, DCC and MD were an attempt to bring CD-quality recording to the home consumer.

The rising popularity and decreasing price of CD-R / CD-RW and DVD +- R / DVD +- RW drives greatly hurt the success of the drive since their price per megabyte was much lower and because these discs could be read in almost any standard ROM drive ( irrespective of format ).

The first Cex album, Cells, was a compilation of tracks Kidwell had been working on for several years, and was released in 1998 by his own CD-R label, _underscore, while he was still at Dulaney High School in Timonium, Maryland.

From 2000 to 2003, Lekman recorded and released much of his material privately on CD-R. Because one of his songs during this time was entitled " Rocky Dennis ' Farewell Song to the Blind Girl ", inspired by the movie Mask, Lekman was mistakenly referred to as " Rocky Dennis ".

Paul Weil left the band and was replaced by Joe Halladay, and in 2006 Halladay left the band and was replaced by the visual artist Breck Brunson, whose first recorded tracks appeared on a CD-R the band sold during its 2006 U. S. tour in support of Liars.

The album was re-mastered and three tracks from the CD-R version were replaced with newer ones, including the DFE theme song " D-E-F ".

Two years later, MindRec released Meteor Blaster DX on CD-R. Official word was that it was unable to be pressed to CD proper due to the glass mastering software suddenly unable to handle the unorthodox style of CD layout that the system expects.

Due to a flaw in the Dreamcast BIOS, which was intended for use with MIL-CD's, the console can run software from CD-R without the use of a modchip.

Exhausted by cold, hunger and fatigue, he was eventually discovered by a peasant carrying a charcoal burner, but his exposure to the elements meant he soon contracted a dangerously high fever.

The alcohol-water fuel was pumped along the double wall of the main combustion burner.

The fuel was then pumped into the main burner chamber through 1, 224 nozzles, which assured the correct mixture of alcohol and oxygen at all times.

In the U. S., the Vietnam War was on the front burner, the populace was passionately engaged, and the police riots outside the ’ 68 Chicago Democratic Convention and the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton were raw wounds.

The first train to service Foley was a wood burner called the " Pine Knot Special.

Ultimately the rezoning for the burner was not approved and an appeal was denied.

Eymard claimed that before becoming involved in the weaving of silk, Jacquard was a type-founder ( a maker of printers ’ type ), a soldier, a bleacher ( blanchisseur ) of straw hats, and a lime burner ( a maker of lime for mortar ).

Track was not used – the boiler was filled with water, the burner lit, and when steam was being produced, the locomotive was placed on the floor and allowed to run until either the water or fuel ran out or the engine crashed into the furniture.

Very often this trail would be mixed with the fuel used for the burner, and there were numerous incidents of fires caused by the locomotive crashing into furniture and over-turning so that the burning fuel was spilled over the floor.

On early designs, ignition timing was adjusted by adjusting the position of the red-hot spot on the tube — this was accomplished by moving the burner along the length of the tube.

Also important was never setting the burner flame where it would heat the tube white hot, which would rapidly damage the tube and could cause it to burst explosively.

At the time, Musgrove was quoted as saying, " When we're confronted by these types of matters, politics has to be put on the back burner and we have to do the right thing.

The use of single burner alcohol stoves for camping, similar to the contemporary Trangia brand, was reported as early as 1919.

Lindqvist's stove was based on the pressurized blowtorch but fitted with an upturned burner assembly of his own design.

The Primus burner vaporized the fuel in a loop of pipe which rose up from the fuel tank at the stove's base, and which was pre-heated with alcohol ( or " methylated spirits ") before being combusted in the burner.

Similar in design to the kerosene burning Primus-style stove, the smaller white gas stove was also made of brass with the fuel tank at the base and the burner assembly at the top.

Centro hoped to complete the scheme by 2014, but in May 2010 Wolverhampton councillor Paddy Bradley stated it was " on the back burner ".

Despite its eventual success, Minder was a slow burner, not helped by being delayed by a nine-week technicians ' strike which effectively blacked out the ITV network.