Even in 1993, Charles still used only a plug-in calculator circa 1970, with blue keys the size of dimes, very rugged keys, which was indeed fortunate given the pounding he would give it when reproducing calculations by hand that some state-of-the-art mainframe, the pride of IBM and the size of a refrigerator, had no doubt taken many minutes to complete in some sealed room.
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Ease of use for undiluted fun or slick business presentations The small size of the deep-blue LUMILEO devices doesn't compromise usability.
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Once we are in our kayaks, our guide, Timothy Duffy, leads us into a 10-mile-deep ice field dotted with blue-white bergs that vary in size from refrigerator to SUV to two-story house.
He was wearing a black Slazenger vest top, khaki Pierre Cardin jeans which had black tape linking around two of the belt loops acting as a makeshift belt, and white size eight Lonsdale trainers with a blue trim and Velcro fasteners.
Another photo showed the machine, tripod-mounted and about the size of an old-style projection television and housed in blue plastic.
Blue Bird spokesman Teguh Wijayanto confirmed the IPO plan but declined to specify the size of the offering.
"This request for extra money has suddenly sort of come out of the blue and what what worries me more than anything is that an organisation the size of the county council haven't worked out a proper budget for this park right from the very beginning, " he said.
The largest animals on Earth, blue whales can grow up to 90 feet long, still a fraction of the size of cargo ships that can stretch 1, 200 feet.
In December a company called Blue H Technologies, based in Oosterhout in the Netherlands, placed a half-size prototype turbine about 20km off the coast of southern Italy in water 108 metres deep.
Come 2012, Light Blue Optics wants to go high volume, selling between 10, 000 and 100, 000 devices the size of a mobile phone, that can project an even bigger image (15 inches wide), and soon after that bring out a device the size of a USB stick.
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Nine consumer electronics firm agreed in February to standardize and promote a new format called "Blu-ray Disc" that uses a shortwave blue-violet laser to read more than two hours of high-definition content stored on a DVD-size platter.
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