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

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In one corner stood the defending champion, Texas Instruments. and Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas, Texas. in Dallas, Texas.) in Austin, Texas: “We could have done the work in two weeks if they had let us sign nondisclosure agreements.” In the other stood the challenger, Fairchild Semiconductor.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. It’s a personal challenge. It’s only sand.”

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