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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Floppies have had a surprisingly long life—in January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. Younger people, if they recognize 3M, it’s probably because of Post-it notes, or more recently its N95 masks.) inch floppy.

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. When Adobe was founded, the cheapest cost around $10,000.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Terman stressed that KAIS should aim to “satisfy the needs of Korean industry and Korean industrial establishments for highly trained and innovative specialists, rather than to add to the world’s store of basic knowledge.” Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. South Korea’s Founding Lab. Korea Academy of Science and Technology.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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For Steven Jobs, the 29-year-old chairman of Apple and the Macintosh project’s director, it offered a chance to prove himself in the corporate world after a temporary setback: although he cofounded Apple Computer, the company had declined to let him manage the Lisa project. less than a half-hour’s drive from Apple’s Cupertino headquarters.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out. Sunnyvale, Calif.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured. The VIC-20 disk drive was designed in Japan, and the bus was changed from parallel to serial to economize. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! It was a lot of fun,” said Ziembicki.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we as well as Honda Motor Co.

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