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  2. Unit record equipment - Wikipedia

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    The term unit record equipment also refers to peripheral equipment attached to computers that reads or writes unit records, e.g., card readers, card punches, printers, MICR readers. IBM was the largest supplier of unit record equipment and this article largely reflects IBM practice and terminology.

  3. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...

  4. Tabulating machine - Wikipedia

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    Many applications using unit record tabulators were migrated to computers such as the IBM 1401. Two programming languages, FARGO and RPG, were created to aid this migration. Since tabulator control panels were based on the machine cycle, both FARGO and RPG emulated the notion of the machine cycle and training material showed the control panel ...

  5. Category:Unit record equipment - Wikipedia

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    IBM unit record equipment (2 C, 28 P) P. Punched card (2 C, 16 P) U. UNIVAC unit record equipment (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Unit record equipment"

  6. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Frances Densmore and Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief working on a recording project of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916). Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

  7. Category:Recording devices - Wikipedia

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    Digital video recorders (3 C, 44 P) S. ... Unit record equipment (3 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Recording devices" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of ...

  8. Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder machines of the late 1880s and the 1890s were usually sold with recording attachments. The ability to record as well as play back sound was an advantage of cylinder phonographs over the competition from cheaper disc record phonographs, which began to be mass-marketed at the end of the 1890s, as the disc system machines could be used ...

  9. Punched card sorter - Wikipedia

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    Sorting was a major activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards using unit record equipment. The work flow of many processes required decks of cards to be put into some specific order as determined by the data punched in the cards. The same deck might be sorted differently for different processing steps.