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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.)

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.

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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. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store. of Tokyo, Japan, introduced the Canon LBP-CX desktop laser printer, which, moreover, printed beautifully. “If

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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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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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During a visit to our lab, Hajime Yano , a planetary scientist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, suggested a nearer-term possibility: to turn the Beta cloth blanket used on long-duration spacecraft into a science experiment. Electronic textiles got an early and auspicious start in space.

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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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