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  2. Flying Laptop - Wikipedia

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    The German Flying Laptop satellite, launched on 14 July 2017 on a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, [1] hosts the OSIRISv1 laser communications experiment. [2] The satellite has a total mass of 110 kg. [3] It operates at a 600 kilometres (370 mi) Sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 97.6 degrees. [4]

  3. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now. A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking.

  4. Electronic flight bag - Wikipedia

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    Electronic flight bag showing the airport diagram of Avalon Airport. An electronic flight bag (EFB) is an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper [1] providing the reference material often found in the pilot's carry-on flight bag, including the flight-crew operating manual, navigational charts ...

  5. National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena

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    One of NICAP's prime goals was thorough field investigations of UFO reports. They would eventually compile a significant number of case files and field investigations which Clark characterises as "often first rate". [7] By 1958, NICAP had grown to over 5000 members.

  6. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse Touchpad and a pointing stick on an IBM notebook Trackpoint An elder 3D mouse 3D pointing device. A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer.

  7. KYE Systems - Wikipedia

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    KYE Systems Group, or KYE, an abbreviation of Kung Ying Enterprises (Chinese: 迎廣科技股份有限公司), [1] is a Taiwanese computer peripheral manufacturer that designs and manufactures and markets human interface devices such as mice under their own brand, Genius.

  8. Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo flight computer was the first computer to use silicon IC chips. [ 15 ] While the Block I version used 4,100 ICs, each containing a single three-input NOR gate , the later Block II version (used in the crewed flights) used about 2,800 ICs, mostly dual three-input NOR gates and smaller numbers of expanders and sense amplifiers.

  9. Keyboard controller (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The keyboard controller also handles PS/2 mouse input if a PS/2 mouse port is present. Today the keyboard controller is either a unit inside a Super I/O device or is missing, having its keyboard and mouse functions handled by a USB controller and its role in controlling the A20 line becoming integrated into the chipset's northbridge and then ...