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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

WEBSTER • FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR• April 21, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. Yep, a truck. Its the trucks, stupid.

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

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Networks that link personal computers in offices. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV: Chevy’s lowest-priced electric car gets a big brother

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If it were a person, you might almost feel sorry for the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, which was launched in February. That’s substantially lower than the price tag of last year’s Bolt EV, and the updated smaller Bolt itself is going to drop more than $5,000, to come in at a starting price of $32,000. New role: value pricing.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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We realised quite early that the Tigor’s fast tag had a zero balance - so we ended up paying double the toll on the first three gates. A SOS call to Jayasuriya resulted in 1000 Rs appearing on the tag - and from then on it was easy going. I remembered reading an article which said that sailors could exceed wind speeds too.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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Skip to Content Listen to the Joystiq Podcast (because your ears cant read) Autoblog AOL Autos Green Daily Gadling Engadget AutoblogGreen Autoblog Green Web Images Video News Local More → x Jobs Mapquest Movies Music Personals Shopping Travel Yellow Pages Send us a tip Contact us Advertise Corrections/Problems? Small size.