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

Cars That Think

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. And the ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) is based on PostScript. 2, 1988, pp.

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

We have made this technology smaller, faster, and more robust for real-world use at a relatively low cost. Ranger is a low-cost, high-precision localization system that overcomes a lot of problems affecting GPS systems. for technical work documenting Ranger innovations. —Kristopher Kozak.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! How did the Commodore engineers botch up the disk drive? The disk drive?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. The largest category: 39% want PHEVs.

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