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unusual facts about stored-program computer



Barbera d'Asti

The first written proof of vinification is stored in the city hall of Nizza Monferrato and dates back to the seventeenth century.

Bit flipping

Memory error, Soft error, an unintentional state switch from 0 to 1, or vice versa, of a bit stored to random access memory or other medium

Bookmarklet

Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page.

Borgergade

Instigated by Christian Axel Jensen, director of Museum of Copenhagen, the Mint Master's House was dismantled, registered and stored in a shed at Vestre Cemetery.

Boyers, Pennsylvania

The Iron Mountain Corporation has a large storage facility located in a former limestone mine close to Boyers, where the Corbis photographic collection is stored.

Capacitor

In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania in Germany found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.

CDVD

Such discs must be written in the so-called "Mode 1", which is compatible with both the ISO 9660 and UDF 1.02 filesystems, and therefore limits the amount of data that can be stored on an 80-minute CD to 700 MiB.

CoMotion

All data is stored in "u-forms", which are a universal property list (name-value pairs) that can contain basic types, arrays, and links to other u-forms.

Cretoxyrhina

One such specimen was discovered in 1891 by George Sternberg, and was stored in a Munich museum.

Criminal record

A criminal record (Dutch: strafblad) is stored at Justitiële Informatiedienst in Almelo.

Document warehouse

On the other hand, Document Warehouse for SAP is also a FileNet's commercial software that enables SAP's business applications to access document images stored by FileNet.

DV

DV Audio/Video data can be stored as raw DV data stream file (data is written to a file as the data is received over FireWire, file extensions are .dv and .dif) or the DV data can be packed into container files (ex: Microsoft AVI, Apple MOV).

Flying Tom Airport

A Douglas DC-3 is stored at the site and is visible from nearby Ryals Avenue.

Fred Federspiel

Federspiel currently serves on the board of directors of BiosGroup, and is developing technology to help individuals construct a personal layer of security around data stored in the cloud.

German National Library

After the failure of the revolution the library was abandoned and the stock of books already in existence was stored at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Ghent Altarpiece

After Allied air raids made the castle too dangerous for the painting, it was stored in the Altaussee salt mines.

Gov. Stanford

The locomotive was disassembled and stored during World War II but was returned to display at the university after reassembly by retired Southern Pacific engineer Billy Jones.

InCD

Systems which do not support UDF (such as Windows 98) will only present a HTML page (stored on the disk, outside the UDF part), explaining the problem and linking to a free UDF reader software.

Integrative bioinformatics

Furthermore, the data are scattered over a plethora of both public and private repositories, and are stored using a large number of different formats.

Kechries

Material from the excavations is stored in the Isthmia Archaeological Museum, where some of it is on display.

Latécoère 521

Operated by Air France on route proving flights the 521 was militarised in 1939 and operated by the Vichy government until stored at Marignane, finally being destroyed when axis troops retreated from advancing Allies.

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Part of the largest collection of Jurassic period fossils in North America, housed at BYU, was stored underneath the east bleachers of the stadium until 2005.

Lewis Weston Dillwyn

William's letters to his daughter Suzanna are held by the Library Company in Philadelphia and stored at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Linda Finch

Finch came upon it stored in a hangar at a small grass strip airport near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin where it had been sitting for years; the wings were off, the engines had been sold and various other parts were missing.

LTM

Long-term memory, memory that can be stored as little as a few days or as long as decades

Megalena crassa

Specimens of this species are stored in collections in Europe: Germany (Senckenberg Museum, Institute of Zoology and Museum of Zoology of University of Hamburg), Poland (Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warszawa) and in Netherland.

Memory RNA

Memory RNA is a now-discredited hypothetical form of RNA that was proposed by James V. McConnell and others as a means of explaining how long-term memories were stored in the brain.

Mercerville, New Jersey

The funds were stored by John Abbott II for state treasurer Samuel Tucker inside a tub containing broken crockery.

Michael Puntervold

Several letters between Leon Trotsky and Michael Puntervold are stored in the Harvard Library.

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

Upon receiving her degree in 1940, she began a multi-decade career at Museum of the Ancient Orient, one of three such institutions comprising Istanbul Archaeology Museums, as a resident specialist in the field of cuneiform tablets, thousands of which were being stored untranslated and unclassified in the facility's archives.

Nelahozeves

A part of the Lobkowicz collection of paintings is stored in the castle, including works of Diego Velázquez, Antonio Canaletto, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens and others.

No-knead bread

In 2007, authors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe François published Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which uses a no-knead method of stored and refrigerated dough that is ready for use at any time during a 5 to 14 day period.

Nymphs and Satyr

It was sold at auction in 1888, after which the painting was displayed in the bar of the Hoffman House Hotel, New York City until 1901, when it was bought and stored in a warehouse, the buyer hoping to keep its 'offensive' content from the public.

Old Harry Rocks

Another local legend says that the rocks were named after Harry Paye, the infamous Poole pirate, who stored his contraband nearby.

Ossolineum

Unexpectedly in the summer of 1944, this collection was transferred by the Germans further West and stored in Adelin (Zgrodno) near Złotoryja in Lower Silesia in the summer of 1944.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.

Persistent browser-based game

Games relying on client-side technology are rarer due to the security aspects that must be dealt with when reading and writing from a user's local file system - the web browser doesn't want web pages to be able to destroy the user's computer, and the game designer doesn't want the game files stored in an easily-accessed place where the user can edit them.

Porsche 959

The "Gates 959" was stored for 13 years by the Customs Service at the Port of Seattle, until regulations were changed to allow "Autos of Interest" to be imported with severe limitations on their use.

Prinergy

All job information and file metadata are stored in an Oracle database, while content is stored as Adobe PDF or PDF/X, and production control is stored as Adobe Portable Job Ticket Format, or Job Definition Format (JDF).

Ruth Paine

Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine's garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.

Sinderby

From December 2002 a number of British Railways Mark 2 coaches were stored behind the station for a period of time unused, and this evolved into the famous "Sinderby train graveyard" until they were removed in 2009 before the widening of the A1 road.

Sojovice

Iron ions are sedimenting here and each few years they are removed and stored elsewhere.

The Children's Encyclopædia

In May 1973 riots occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in an area where Jamaat-e-Islami was gaining influence, sparked by the discovery that an illustration contained in The Book of Knowledge, which had been stored in a local library for decades, portrayed the Archangel Gabriel dictating portions of the Quran to the Moslem Prophet Muhammad.

Trinchera Cave Archeological District

The collection was taken and stored at the neighboring Trinidad State Junior College, but the information about the perishable items collection has not yet tabulated and published.

TSS Dover

Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as a one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being stored out of use, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough.

VoltDB

Stored procedures are executed serially and to completion in a single threaded without any locking or latching, similar to the LMAX architecture.

Wintershall

At the end of World War II, the libraries of the German Army's Military Geology Unit (Wehrgeologenstellen) and the German Patent Office (Reichspatentamt) were removed from Berlin and secretly stored in the deep Wintershall potash mine in Heringen.

Woolsington Hall

The Leaze Gates, a set of two tonne monumental gates from Newcastle United F.C.'s St. James Park stadium, were stored in the grounds of Woolsington Hall until their restoration in August 2013.


see also

Universal Turing machine

Davis makes a persuasive argument that Turing's conception of what is now known as "the stored-program computer", of placing the "action table"—the instructions for the machine—in the same "memory" as the input data, strongly influenced John von Neumann's conception of the first American discrete-symbol (as opposed to analog) computer—the EDVAC.