Vending machine ... The idea is to vend products without a [[cashier]].
Items sold via vending machines vary by country and region. In many
countries, vending machines generally serve the purpose of selling
[[snack]]s and [[beverages]], but are also common in busy locat
...
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Slot machine [[Image:Casino slots.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Slot
machines in the [[Trump Taj Mahal]]]] ... web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/slot-machines|title=How
slot machines give gamblers the business|last=Cooper|first=Marc|date=December
2005|publi ...
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Machine embroidery ... ay are driven by computers that read digitized
embroidery files created by special [[software]]. ... mounted and
branded on several different brands of computerized embroidery machines.
Adler was also a common choice. Later Tajima, from Japan, provided
sewing ...
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Virtual machine ... ient, isolated duplicate of a real machine''.
Current use includes virtual machines which have no direct correspondence
to any real hardware.<ref name="Smith_ ... | title = The
Architecture of Virtual Machines
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Electrostatic generator ... f generating electricity by friction,
but the development of electrostatic machines did not begin in earnest
until the 18th century, when they became fundamen ... Electrostatic
machines are typically used in science classrooms to safely demonstrate
electrical ...
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Lisp machine ... o Research Center)', but I can't remember if Xerox
PARC was using the Lisp machines before or after or in the development
of the features. -->. ... ng language]]. To keep the [[operating
system]] (relatively) simple, these machines would not be shared,
but would be dedicated to a single user.
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Unit record equipment ... a carefully choreographed progression.
The flow of card decks between the machines was typically hand-drawn
on large sheets of paper using standardised symbo ... ... anical
counters and relays. Electronic components were introduced on some
machines beginning in the late 1940s.
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Condition monitoring ... an allowing the machinery to fail. Serviceable
machinery include rotating machines and stationary plant such as
[[boilers]] and [[heat exchangers]]. ... ers to measure the casing
vibrations, and on the vast majority of critical machines, with
[[eddy-current]] transducers that directly observe the rotating
shaf ...
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Supercomputer ... }}. Page 95 identifies the article as {{cite news
|title= Super Computing Machines Shown |publisher=New York World
|date= March 1, 1920 }}. However the artic ... ... ocessors at a
lower price to enter the market. The early and mid-1980s saw machines
with a modest number of vector processors working in parallel become
the s ...
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Modified Harvard architecture ... nd data (typically [[Read-write
memory|read/write memory]]) in Von Neumann machines is becoming
popular. The true distinction of a Harvard machine is that in ...
... operated upon into data memory. Additionally, modern Harvard
architecture machines often use a [[Read-only memory| read-only]]
technology for the instruction ...
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Zion (The Matrix) ... ] [[Earth]] after a cataclysmic nuclear war
between humankind and sentient Machines, which resulted in artificial
lifeforms dominating the world. ... n their own and began waging
a partial-guerrilla war from Zion against the Machines, and at the
same time try to free the Matrix's population from their virtu ...
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Comparison of Application Virtual Machines ==Design focus of some
Portable Virtual Machines== ... implement the concept of [[application
virtualization]], typically for the purpose of allowing application
binaries to be portably run on many different comp ...
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Drum machine ... rums]] and/or other [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide
variety of musical genres, not just ... ... on instruments. Though
features vary from model to model, many modern drum machines can
also produce unique sounds (though usually percussive in nature),
and ...
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Lathe (metal) ... with great precision. This helps ensure the components
manufactured on the machines can meet the required tolerances and
repeatability. ... ley]] with the lower speeds available by manipulating
the bull gear, later machines use a gear box driven by a dedicated
electric motor. The fully geared head ...
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Portsmouth Block Mills ... rtaking a detailed survey of the buildings
and the records relating to the machines. ... sing the production
processes in the dockyard. His office employed several specialists
as his assistants - Mechanist ([[engineer]]), Draughtsmen, [[Architect
...
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Raymond Kurzweil ... d title -->]</ref> He predicted in
his 1999 book, ''[[The Age of Spiritual Machines]],'' that computers
will one day prove superior to the best human financia ... Kurzweil's
first book, ''[[The Age of Intelligent Machines]]'', was published
in 1990. The nonfiction work discusses the history of c ...
104 KB (15526 words) - 22:44, 15 June 2008
ICL 2900 Series ... th any previous machines produced by the company,
or with any competitor's machines: rather, it was conceived as a
''synthetic option'' combining the best ide ... ... machines implementing
the 2900 Series architecture, as were subsequent ICL machines branded
'''Trimetra'''.
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Ballast tamper ... g faster, more accurate, more efficient and less
labour-intensive, tamping machines are essential for the use of
[[concrete]] [[railroad tie|sleeper]]s since ... Early machines
only lifted the track and packed the ballast. More modern machines,
sometimes known as a '''tamper-liner''' or '''tamping and lining
machine' ...
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Stack machine Typically such machines also have a "load"
and a "store" instruction that reads and writes to arbi
... The advantage of stack machines ("0-operand instruction
set") over [[accumulator machine]]s ("1-operand in ...
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Rube Goldberg machine ... /ref> to describe [[Rube Goldberg]]'s
illustrations of "absurdly-connected machines". Since
then, the expression's meaning has expanded to denote any form of
... * In [[Denmark]], they are called ''Storm P maskiner'' (''[[Storm
P machines]]''), after the Danish cartoonist [[Robert Storm Petersen]].
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