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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. With biofuels, if you look at the relative efficiency of converting solar energy into biofuel versus solar energy into hydrogen, it’s not even a comparison, it’s ridiculous, it’s 500 times difference.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. EVs are a smart and efficient choice for personal transportation. Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. The rate of $0.32 cited is for rooftop systems, not greenfield systems, and the vast majority of applicants are for roofs of established businesses.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” San Jose, Calif., In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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