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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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Punching above its weight

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And that includes Atlanta, which is 10 times larger than Asheville.” Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” Louis, and north of Florida.

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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. brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Menus list choices of action.

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