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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them.

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Punching above its weight

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And that includes Atlanta, which is 10 times larger than Asheville.” We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” Louis, and north of Florida. The reason for the instant success?

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. Among those 11 are overlapping windows and movable icons. covering development of the Star.

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