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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. As We May Think Bush didn’t foresee the technical means by which vast amount of information could be stored electronically but he correctly predicted in 1945 that radical miniaturization of information was on the horizon.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. s networking advanced development group in Massachusetts. I told Mark about my idea of using store-and-forward switching to increase LAN performance. But there is more to the story that is not widely known.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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Drivers will need to select the "stealth" mode to rely exclusively on electricity stored in the battery. The Roadster runs exclusively on power stored in its battery: it does not have an onboard generator to extend its range. The stealth mode is a holdover from the origins of the vehicles propulsion system.

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The SurplusCenter : {Returnto top of page} Used EVs For Sale EV Finder The EV TradinPost : EVs & parts wanted and for sale TriangleEAA List {Returnto top of page} EV Magazines andNewsletters AlternativeFuel Vehicle Group ElectricCars.Com :Net-zine ElectrifyingTimes: Cool magazine! Discover the potential!

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Ivan E. The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. covering development of the Star.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. It’s a little hard to do language research and compiler research without having a machine,” said Mitchell. Frame buffer.

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