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SpaceX to ramp its Tesla Powerpack installations at its Starbase facility

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Reports have emerged stating that SpaceX is expanding its onsite solar and battery storage systems at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. As per PV Magazine , the additions to Starbase’s solar and battery storage systems would expand the site by 1.7

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

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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. Don’t you want to share?

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Briefly he considered building the plant in Texas, but since the designers were to work closely with the manufacturing team in the later stages of the Macintosh design, he decided to locate the plant at Fremont, Calif., The sound generator was simply a digital-to-analog converter connected to a linear amplifier.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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But it was simple to interface with the computer: the processor just read frequent samples of the potentiometer positioning signals through analog-to-digital converters. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. The ball mouse was the “easiest patent I ever got.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. 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. Hoff always “had to do very cutting-edge work,” Faggin told Spectrum. “I

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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. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! In addition to the products of Texas Instruments, Atari, and Mattel, he studied his own previous work. “I The team spent about two weeks researching comparable chips industrywide. “We

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