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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. During the pandemic operations were shut down and it is now more focused on on corporate programs. In the U.S.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. This makes it practical to keep tabs on buildings as they are being built, track progress, and identify mistakes when they are cheaper to fix. Building secure systems will need to address hardware, software, and protocols and their interplay.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. At the final count, some 400 transistors were used. of Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” Smith et al.,

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Build the damn cars and watch us change our habits.

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