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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Now legal in all states, all Cadillacs adopted them immediately. That grille was a ‘58-only design, as Buick introduced the disastrous Limited lineup.

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

Cars That Think

Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. Modern designs typically revolve around the E6 series of ohmic value multipliers —1.0, For starters, many of the resistor values used will seem a little off.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. I want it to be all of California.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Mice, windows, icons, and menus: these are the ingredients of computer interfaces designed to be easy to grasp, simplicity itself to use, and straightforward to describe. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” The mouse is a pointer. Windows divide up the screen.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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One of the big challenges that we have in science today is that so much of the information that we're generating nowadays was originally designed for humans to read one by one. All those things were originally designed for humans to read them. And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. But Hoff, with Noyce’s blessing, started working on the project. San Jose, Calif.,

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