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A fact from Comtal appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Comtal Corporation's products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Comtal.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 20:44, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Comtal Corporation's products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s? Source: "3M Comtal's equipment processed amazing views of Viking on Mars and the Voyager transmissions from Jupiter ..." (Spinoff 1992).
- ALT1: ... that Comtal Corporation's digital image processors were used by X-ray technicians and NASA? Source: "Comtal systems are also used in earth resources satellites, X-rays and tomography, signal analysis systems..." (Business Screen 1977).
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/List of Egyptian obelisks

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 07:14, 2 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: A very interesting read, I'd certainly not heard of this company before today, and also an intriguing hook. I'm a fan of both hooks, but I think the first one is a bit punchier. My only bit of input would be to perhaps leave out "surface of" and "flybys of" to give "...process digital images of Mars and Jupiter in the 1970s?" A minor thing, but I think that just flows a bit better. Other than that and the pending QPQ, the nomination looks ready to go. Fritzmann (message me) 17:44, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review Fritzmann! QPQ done. Here's your suggested alt:

ALT2: ... that Comtal Corporation's products were used by NASA to process digital images of Mars and Jupiter in the 1970s?

Thanks again! DigitalIceAge (talk) 19:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

for ALT2, looks good! Thanks to you for a painless review and a well-made article. Fritzmann (message me) 19:24, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 to T:DYK/P2