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The coffee vending machine was invented in the United States by the Rudd-Melikian company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1947, and the machine was named the Kwik Kafe.[a] [12] The machine would drop a paper cup through a chute onto a platform and fill the cup with hot coffee prepared using instant coffee and hot water. [13]
Curtis Mathes, Inc., is a North American electronics retailer initially based in Garland, Texas, and specializing in the sale of private label brand electronics and repair services. It manufactured its own brand of televisions in Athens, Texas , until July 31, 1982; ten years later, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization which ...
Rather than using a pattern grinder to remove metal, keys may also be duplicated with a punch machine (the Curtis key clipper [1] is a recognised example). The key to be duplicated is measured for the depth of each notch with a gauge and then placed into a device with a numeric slider.
As part of a commercial advertising campaign, Curtis portrayed the character Steven. [1] The commercials would usually feature Steven informing someone of all the perks of owning a Dell. When the person was sold on the idea, Steven would close with the catchphrase "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" The campaign was a success and brought prominence ...
It was the world's first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored program digital computer. [ a ] Although preceded as a commercial digital computer by the BINAC and the Z4 , the Z4 was electromechanical and lacked software programmability, while BINAC never operated successfully after delivery.
After acquiring drawings with a Nova 1200 purchase, Digital Computer Controls designed its own nearly identical minicomputer. Digital Computer Controls maintained that its use of the documentation was proper because Data General Corporation inadequately maintained the secrecy of the design drawings by distributing them to many customers.
An espresso machine brews coffee by forcing pressurized water near boiling point through a "puck" of ground coffee and a filter in order to produce a thick, concentrated coffee called espresso. Multiple machine designs have been created to produce espresso. Several machines share some common elements, such as a grouphead and a portafilter.
At the time WWG was published there were very few digital computers in the world. EDSAC, on which the book was based, was the first computer in the world to provide a practical computing service for researchers. [2] Demand for the book was so limited initially that it took six years to sell out the first edition. [7]