Actually, there were many QRIOs produced. Each member in Sony's internal lab that worked on QRIO had their own QRIO to run tests on. There was also a set of QRIOs that they took on tours.
On Novemeber 4 2005, Sony released 2 QRIOs to Carnegie Mellon University's CORAL Lab under Manuela Veloso. They may or may not have released others to other educational institutions as well. I'm glad that Sony at least released a few QRIOs to the public before they decided to discontinue them. Their balance is incredible and I think continued research on QRIO will greatly benefit the robotics community.
Amtrak made the same mistake, but then corrected themselves, despite ISO 3166-1. After the matter was looked into, Amtrak sent an official letter of apology.
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Actually, there were many QRIOs produced. Each member in Sony's internal lab that worked on QRIO had their own QRIO to run tests on. There was also a set of QRIOs that they took on tours. On Novemeber 4 2005, Sony released 2 QRIOs to Carnegie Mellon University's CORAL Lab under Manuela Veloso. They may or may not have released others to other educational institutions as well. I'm glad that Sony at least released a few QRIOs to the public before they decided to discontinue them. Their balance is incredible and I think continued research on QRIO will greatly benefit the robotics community.
This is a direct quote from a letter from Joseph Martinez, the Secretary for the ISO 3166 Maintainece Agency sent May 6, 2005.
"ISO 3166 does not set out to establish the name of countries, territories, or area of geographical interest."
ISO 3166 simply sets the code, not the names. Therefore going by ISO standard simply means that TW, TWN, 158 are the codes for Taiwan, as listed here.
Amtrak made the same mistake, but then corrected themselves, despite ISO 3166-1. After the matter was looked into, Amtrak sent an official letter of apology.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2
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