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...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5050072 | Semaphore memory to reduce common bus contention to global memory with localized semaphores in a multiprocessor system The invention greatly reduces common bus contention by allowing the semaphore test bit and set operations to be performed on each CPU's local bus. The semaphore lock bits are stored locally in high speed SRAM on each CPU, and coherency of the lock bits is... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5021946 | Mostly contiguous file allocation technique involving file extension A method for selecting the sizes and the ordering of the extents used to construct a file, a segment, or a virtual space of a computer system (file). The general method is defined to be any function, applied to this purpose, that, in general, attaches lar... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4949245 | Intermediate memory system for connecting microcomputers to a rotating disk memory A method of storing data on a peripheral rotating disk memory system, which is connected to one of a plurality of central processor units via a common bus including temporarily storing, in an intermediate memory system connected to the bus, original data ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4892492 | Device with openings for receiving pins of electrical components In a device with openings for receiving pins of electrical components therein an including spring elements which are bowed in toward the center of the opening at the bottom thereof, and is then bowed out in the middle of the opening and drawn back towards... | 01/09/1990 |
