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The first 650 was installed on December 8, 1954 in the controller's department of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston. [16]The IBM 7070 (signed 10-digit decimal words), announced 1958, was expected to be a "common successor to at least the 650 and the [IBM] 705". [17]
Parallel ATA (PATA), originally AT Attachment, also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers.It was first developed by Western Digital and Compaq in 1986 for compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives.
Hard disk and other storage drives are subject to failures (see hard disk drive failure) which can be classified into two basic classes: . Predictable failures which result from slow processes such as mechanical wear and gradual degradation of storage surfaces.
Counter (board wargames), a playing piece used in board wargames Counter run, an offensive play in American football; Counter turn, an element in figure skating; Counter (collectible card games), a small item used to represent certain objects or conditions in a collectible card game
The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in South India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.