Shoebox

Shoebox, shoe-box or shoe box may refer to:

Shoebox (album)

Shoebox is the eighth studio album by the South Korean hip hop group Epik High. The album was released online on October 21, 2014 and physically on October 22, 2014, by YG Entertainment. "Spoiler" and "Happen Ending" served as the title tracks for the album.

Background

YG Entertainment announced on October 13, 2014 that the group would make a comeback with their eighth studio album on October 21, 2014. It was also revealed that the album release was delayed one week due to the music video shoot taking longer than expected. The Japanese edition of this album was released by YGEX, the joint label between YG Entertainment and Japanese record label Avex Trax, on December 24th, 2014.

Track listing

IBM Shoebox

The IBM shoebox was a 1961 IBM computer that was able to perform mathematical functions and perform speech recognition. It recognized 16 spoken words and the digits 0 through 9.

History

It was displayed at the IBM Pavilion during the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

It was approximately the size and shape of a standard American shoebox. It had a display of ten small lamp lights labeled with the digits 0 through 9 and an attached microphone. Speaking the name of the digit into the microphone would cause the appropriate digit lamp to light.

Inside the box was a power supply, three analog audio filters and some (presumably) Diode-Resistor-Logic circuitry. The clever part of the design was in noticing that each digit name “Zero”, “One”, Two” … “Nine” had a front, middle, and ending sound. (Sometimes no middle). And that each sound was high pitched, middle pitched or low pitched. Example: “Five” is High-Middle-High. “Zero” is High-Middle-Low. The microphone was connected to the three audio filters for high, middle, and low pass. The filters latched the logic based decoder and switched one of the ten lamps.