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unusual facts about ARITH-MATIC


ARITH-MATIC

ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.


Božidar Matić

Božidar Matić (born September 8, 1937) is the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.

Combat Shock

Typical of the movie, unexplained arbitrary things happen, such as one social worker asking another if he's seen his Veg-O-Matic.

Danny MacFayden

According to Charles Bukowski's childhood friend Harold Mortenson, in the 1930s, the two played a statistics-intensive baseball game akin to Strat-O-Matic that involved two dice and two manuals that was marketed under Danny MacFayden's name when he was with the Boston Bees.

Dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor

In general, any high-quality VHS VCR would do, although 3/4" U-matic or Beta decks could also have been used. If viewed on a monitor, the output stream of a Model 700 looked like analog TV "static" or noise, with slight black bars running down either side.

God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!

As Scallion #1 tries to re-advertise The Forgive-O-Matic as a julienne fry maker and a Chia model, Junior turns of the lights and camera telling the Scallion to say "Goodnight Gracie" (a reference to the ending line of the Burns and Allen radio and television shows).

Igor Matić

During his professional career, Matić played with FK Zemun, OFK Beograd and FK Banat Zrenjanin in his country, but also with French SM Caen, Kazakh FC Megasport, and Montenegrin OFK Grbalj and FK Mogren.

Jacques Labouchere

Self-titled, "Jacques Labouchere" in 2007, recorded and produced by Martin Molin of Detektivbyrån, and "Bi-polar Baby Strollers" in 2010, recorded at Music-a-matic Studios.

Joe Sheehan

When Rany—who was a friend of mine though a Strat league—told me this, I offered my services as an editor on the project.

Mark Dunn

Dunn seems to be particularly interested in constrained writing, with Ella Minnow Pea being a "progressively lipogrammatic" epistolary novel, and Ibid: A Life, comprised entirely from the endnotes of a fictional "lost" biography.

Mark Ritsema

This sextet recorded Cobraz only studio album Sato Bar (produced by TC Matic guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts) in 1995, and disbanded the following year.

Rob Nilsson

It was produced by Bay Area art house exhibitors Don Taylor and Ben Myron, and executive-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Signal 7 pioneered the use of ENG video cameras and small portable U-matic cassette recorders for dramatic film production, and was shot over the course of four nights.

Roger Dickinson-Brown

They are often written in the plain style and were evidently influenced by the epigrammatic tradition of Catullus, Martial (whom he translates) and J. V. Cunningham, including their social satire and sometimes risqué humor.

Strat-O-Matic

At this event, over 500 people attended and heard from panelists including Doug Glanville, Rick Peterson and STATS, Inc. founder John Dewan.

Sundberg-Ferar

J.P. Seeburg Corporation jukebox (KD-200, L-series - 1957; Q100, Q160 and 3W100 Wall-O-Matic - 1960)

Surf Excel

Surf Excel products include Surf Excel, a detergent powder designed specially for washing machines as it has a low lather formula.Surf Excel Matic was launched in the year 2002.

The Kuguars

The band, mainly consisting of actors, was formed in 1997 by Dragan Jovanović (vocals), Dejan Matić (triangle, vocals), Nikola Ðuričko (guitar, vocals), Rade Marković (guitar, vocals), Boris Milivojević (bass guitar), Bogdan Diklić (drums), Papa Nick (percussion) and Tibor Tot (percussion), intending to perform and record music for theatre plays.

Unsafe at Any Speed

Early automatic transmissions, including GM's Hydra-Matic, Packard's Ultramatic, and Borg Warner's automatic used by a number of independent manufacturers (Rambler, Studebaker) used a pattern of "P N D L R", which put Reverse at the bottom of the quadrant, next to Low.

Veg-O-Matic

Throughout the eighties, Frank Zappa would satirise the product, as exemplified by recordings on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 and 4; the text of the song were often modified ad-lib.

Jonathan Richman also recorded a song, "Dodge Veg-O-Matic," in the 1970s.

Video Classics

At first the different video formats that Video Classics advertised they duplicated was definitive of the formats on the market at the time, which included VHS, Betamax, Phillips, Grundig and U-matic, whether or not they actually duplicated onto any formats other than VHS or Beta is questionable though, By 1981 their advertising had reduced the list to just VHS and Beta.

Waverly, Alabama

The event is held in the neighborhood's open-air amphitheater at Standard Deluxe Inc. (A Internationally known Design & Screen Print Shop/Music Venue) The 2012 Waverly Boogie featured sets from Centro-Matic, Hurray for the Riff Raff and The Pine Hill Haints among others.

Zenith Electronics

The 1955 Flash-Matic remote system, invented by Eugene Polley, used a highly directional photo flash tube in the hand held unit that was aimed at sensitive photoreceivers in the four front corners of the television cabinet.


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