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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. I want it to be all of California.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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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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This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

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CompuServe launched his career Zittrain first got involved with computers in 1983, when he was in high school, and his parents gave him a US $99 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, the first 16-bit home computer. Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available.

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