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House uniform colours at Lenana School in Nairobi, Kenya. The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom. The practice has since spread to Commonwealth countries. The school is divided into units called "houses" and each student is allocated to one house at the moment of enrollment.
RCA's TSOS operating system was the first mainframe, demand paging, virtual memory operating system on the market. By 1971, despite a significant investment, RCA had only a 4% market share, and it was estimated that it would cost around $500 million over the next five years to remain competitive with the IBM/370 series.
The RCA founder was enthusiastic about the project, expressing his vision for a complex that, according to Daniel Okrent, contained "an opera house, a concert hall, a Shakespeare theater—and both broadcast studios and office space for RCA and its affiliated companies". [98] RCA president David Sarnoff would join the negotiations in early 1930 ...
[298] [299] Also in 1969, the RCA sign atop the building was updated with RCA's new logo in neon lights. [178] The RCA Building maintained high occupancy through this time. Even at its lowest point during the 1973–1975 recession , the building was 88 percent occupied and Rockefeller Center's managers were able to lease space at the building ...
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.
The RCA Building's observation deck was subsequently closed because the Rainbow Room's expansion eliminated the only passageway to the observatory's elevator bank. [196] In mid-1988, the RCA Building was renamed the GE Building. [197] [198] Mitsubishi Estate, a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group, purchased the Rockefeller Group in 1989.
Renaming the Westrex system to Photophone was facilitated by the demise of RCA's cinema sound business unit, by the hand of General Electric, RCA's acquirer, and by its failure to protect the Photophone trademark. The Westrex system, briefly renamed Photophone, is still in use, with more than 100 systems currently in active service, world-wide.
RCA Victor also utilized the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street, the opera house originally built in 1906 by Oscar Hammerstein I, and Webster Hall on East 11th Street, where RCA built a small control room off to the side of ballroom. From the 1920s through the 1940s, RCA Victor also occasionally recorded at Liederkranz Hall on East 58th ...