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MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s. The label achieved success in the 1970s through the 1980s, often by acquiring other record labels, from ABC to Motown to Geffen .
In computing, Machine Check Architecture (MCA) is an Intel and AMD mechanism in which the CPU reports hardware errors to the operating system.. Intel's P6 and Pentium 4 family processors, AMD's K7 and K8 family processors, as well as the Itanium architecture implement a machine check architecture that provides a mechanism for detecting and reporting hardware (machine) errors, such as: system ...
MCA Inc. (originally an initialism for Music Corporation of America) was an American media conglomerate founded in 1924. Originally a talent agency with artists in the music business as clients, the company became a major force in the film industry, and later expanded into television production.
The following is a list of artists who have had recordings with MCA Records. For MCA Records' country music artists, see List of MCA Nashville artists. As MCA reissued recordings previously released on other labels, only artists whose recordings were first issued on the MCA label are listed here.
Adam Nathaniel Yauch (/ j aʊ k / YOWK; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012), also known by the stage name MCA, [1] was an American rapper, bassist, filmmaker and a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys.
Two, 16 bit MCA slots (top and middle). At the bottom is an MCA slot for an IBM 8514 card. Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16-or 32-bit parallel computer bus publicly introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid-1990s. Its name is commonly abbreviated as "MCA ...
MCA Inc., a now defunct company (originally called Music Corporation of America) and its subsidiary companies: MCA Records; MCA Nashville Records; MCA Home Video, former name of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment; MCA Music Inc. (Philippines), a Philippine branch of Universal Music Group which uses the MCA brand due to a trademark issue
The MCA organization picked up the nickname the octopus due to its large reach in many different directions. In 1958, it acquired the 430-acre (1.7 km 2 ) Universal Studios moving into producing television programs and motion pictures while still representing talent clients, resulting in accusations of conflict of interest.