Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5315708 | Method and apparatus for transferring data through a staging memory A method and apparatus for transferring data from one device interface to another device interface via elements of a staging memory and a direct memory access (DMA) channel.... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5233692 | Enhanced interface permitting multiple-byte parallel transfers of control information and data on a small computer system interface (SCSI) communication bus and a mass storage system incorporating the enhanced interface An improved interface system based in part on the SCSI standard is provided. A single cable data bus simultaneously transfers several bytes of information between two devices. The interface system transfers multiple-byte commands, messages, status informa... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233618 | Data correcting applicable to redundant arrays of independent disks Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting and correcting various data errors that may arise in a mass data storage apparatus comprising a set of physical mass storage devices operating as one or more larger logical mass storage devices. A method an... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5195100 | Non-volatile memory storage of write operation identifier in data sotrage device A method and apparatus are provided for detecting and correcting various data errors that may arise in a mass data storage apparatus comprising a set of physical mass storage devices operating as one or more larger logical mass storage devices. More parti... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5175537 | Method and apparatus for scheduling access to a CSMA communication medium A scheduling mechanism is provided for controlling when the arbitration circuit of a node sharing a CSMA communication medium is to start CSMA arbitration for access to the communication medium once the node has a message ready for transmission, the sched... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5166939 | Data storage apparatus and method A mass storage apparatus, made up of a plurality of physical storage devices, which is capable of providing both high bandwidth and high operation rate, as necessary, along with high reliability, is provided. The device set is divided into one or more red... | 11/24/1992 |
