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  • Animation showing a press brake control circuit board as repaired by MCI Electronics.

    Press Brake

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    MCI was called out to another new customer. The customer is a local stainless steel fabrication company. Their press brake machine was not working at full capacity. For those of you who are not familiar, a press brake is a machine that bends flat pieces of metal into shapes or…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing a flash drive being inserted after multiple attempts

    National Flash Drive Day

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    Last Friday, MCI were celebrating National Flash Drive Day. For those of us old enough to to remember 20cm floppy discs, temperamental, bendable square storage devices. These giant floppy discs might just save your document long enough to get it to another computer, so the invention of the flash drive…

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  • MCI Electronics logo featuring an Easter egg and a peeking chick

    Celebrate Easter

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    Today MCI is celebrating Easter! Not only is this the time in Scotland when flowers are beginning to bloom and the weather gets warmer (apparently). We are going to be giving one another chocolate Easter eggs, stuffed with sweet treats. Some families will be going on Easter egg hunts, trying…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation celebrating the granting of the patent for RAM.

    Magnetic Core Memory

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    This week, MCI wants to celebrate the granting of a very important patent – the patent for RAM (coincident current magnetic core memory). As you all know, no one would be able to use a computer or even read this post without this invention. The inventor was Jay Forrester. His…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing Earth leaping as it spins representing a leap year.

    Leap Year

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    MCI wants to remind everyone that it’s a leap year’s day on the 29th February. Not only does a leap year mean lots of sporting excitement with the Olympics (this year to be held in Paris) but lots of leap year day traditions around the world. In the UK, the…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation of a windscreen wiper in celebration of the achievement of Mary Anderson.

    Mary Anderson

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    This week, MCI wants to celebrate Mary Anderson, the inventor of the windscreen wiper. She was born this week in 1866 in America. She was truly a woman of action – a real estate developer, rancher and viticulturist. Before 1903, if it was raining whilst you were driving your car,…

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  • MCI Electronics image celebrating Lunar New Year (Dragon) 2024.

    Lunar New Year 2024

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    MCI wants to wish all its customers and friends a happy Lunar New Year! This year is the year of the Wood Dragon, the only mythical animal in the Chinese zodiac. This year will be a prosperous one, filled with good fortune. We are told that it is a great…

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  • MCI sponsored Eddie Hughes, marathon runner, who raised money for Breast Cancer Now and the Children Tumour Foundation.

    Outrunning Cancer

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    MCI Electronics provided sponsorship to Eddie Hughes, an avid marathon runner and Falkirk resident actively fundraising for children’s charities. The money raised will benefit both Breast Cancer Now and the Children Tumour Foundation. Eddie has made supporting children’s health causes his personal passion. He ran numerous marathons over the past…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation celebrating the invention of the waffle cone.

    Waffle Cone

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    After the recent storms and rain in Scotland, MCI are dreaming of sunnier times. With that in mind, it is a coincidence that this week in 1904, the ice cream waffle cone was invented. Ice cream itself has an incredibly long history and it is suspected to have come from…

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  • 2024 on an electric circuit background to celebrate New Year 2024.

    Happy New Year

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    As MCI begins another exciting year, we want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. With business going well, MCI is on the hunt for electronic engineers and field engineers. If you have what it takes to work at MCI, send us your CV at cv@mcielectronics.co.uk. We’re looking forward to…

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