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Viscount Hill (Rowland Hill) was a British soldier. He was born in 1772 and died in 1842. He entered the army at the age of sixteen and obtained the rank of captain in 1793, and became colonel of the 90th Regiment in 1800. He took part in the Egyptian campaign, and in 1806 was made major-general. He served with great distinction during the campaigns of Moore and Wellington in the Peninsula. In 1809 he became lieutenant-general; in 1812 he was made a KB and in 1814, on being made a peer by the title of Baron of Almarez and of Hawkstone, parliament voted him a perpetual pension of 2000 pounds. At the Battle of Waterloo he commanded the right wing of the British, and he was personally thanked by Wellington for his services. In 1828 he was appointed general commanding-in-chief of the British army, a post which he held until 1842, when he retired and was made a viscount.
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The Commodore Amiga was an American personal computer produced in 1985 based on the Motorola M1 68000 processor running at 8 Mhz. The Commodore Amiga was fitted with 512 kb of RAM, expandable to 8.5 mb and ran the Amiga DOS operating system. The Commodore Amiga had a 16-colour screen with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells and an integral 3.5 inch floppy disk drive.
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The Amstrad PC 1512 was a British personal computer produced in 1986. The
Amstrad PC 1512 introduced low-cost personal computers to the market, costing one quarter what it's competitors did at the time, roughly 400 pounds compared to the more common price tag of just under 1500 pounds. The Amstrad PC 1512 was based upon the Intel 8086 processor running at 8 Mhz and was fitted with 512 kb of RAM, expandable to 640 kb and ran MS-DOS 3.2 and the DOS+ operating systems. The Amstrad PC 1512 had a 14-inch 16-colour monitor with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells. Storage was provided by 5.25-inch 360 kb floppy disk drives and a 10 or 20 mb internal hard disk.
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The BBC Master Compact was a British personal computer launched in 1986 by Acorn Computers, based on the 65C12 processor running at 2 Mhz. The BBC Master Compact was fitted with 128 kb of RAM and ran the BBC BASIC ADFS operating system. The
BBC Master Compact was available with a 12-inch green monochrome or 8-colour monitor and had a display resolution of 640 x 256 pixels or 40 or 80 x 20 character cells. The BBC Master Compact used an external 640 kb 3.25 inch floppy disk drive for storage.
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The Apple Macintosh was a personal computer produced in 1984 based on the Motorola 68000 32-bit processor running at 7.83 Mhz as an alternative to the IBM personal computer. The Apple Macintosh was revolutionary in introducing the 'Lisa' concept of a computer simulating an office environment on the screen with a 'mouse' used to run a cursor around to sort through pages and files. The Apple
Macintosh had a 9-inch 512 x 342 pixel resolution monochrome monitor and a 3.5 inch 400 kb capacity floppy disk drive and an internal 800 kb disk drive and 512 kb of RAM.
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The Z80 is an 8 bit microprocessor chip by Zilog widely used during the 1970's and 1980's - and still in widely used in 2004 - in early personal computers, and which formed the successor to the 8080 microprocessor with some Intel designers leaving Intel and designing the Z80. The Z80 retains all the 8080 instructions and added new instructions. In 2000 Zilog released the eZ80, an updated version of the Z80 microprocessor for modern embedded applications, which operates four times faster at the same clock speed as traditional Z80 microprocessors and can access 16mb of address space, as opposed to the 64 kb accessible by the original
Z80. It should be noted that the original Z80 microprocessor is still in production and use more than twenty years after its inception.
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The KB-6 Matajur is a Yugoslavian two-seater trainer and touring aircraft. The KB-6 Matajur is a low-wing cantilever monoplane of wooden construction powered by a Regnier 4L00 four-cylinder in-line inverted air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 222 km and a range of 820 km. A three-seater version, the KB-6 Matajur-Trised is also produced powered by a Walter Minor JW-6-III six-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 230 kmh and a range of 650 km.
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The KB-9 was a Yugoslavian experimental single-seater high-performance sailplane designed during the 1950's to investigate the most suitable structure for a laminar-flow wing. The KB-9 was a shoulder-wing cantilever monoplane of wooden construction and a top speed of 250 kmh.
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The Saab 105 (Swedish Air Force Designation Sk 60) is a Swedish two-seater trainer and light attack aircraft. It carries up to 700 kg of disposable stores on six hard points, three under each wing. The Saab 105 was conceived as a multi-purpose civil and military aircraft, and first flew in June 1963 and entered production with two Turbomeca Aubisque turbofans for the Swedish air force, which operates the type as the Sk 60A basic trainer with light attack capability, the Sk 60B attack aircraft with a maximum of 700 kg of disposable stores, and the Sk 60C attack and reconnaissance aircraft with a KB-18 camera in the nose. An up-rated version for export, the SAAB 105XT, produced for Austria as the Saab 105O with General Electric J85-GE-17B turbojets and greater weapons carrying ability (2000 kg) is also produced.
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The Sk 60C is a Swedish attack and reconnaissance variant of the Saab 105 with a KB-18 camera in the nose.
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