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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing. This skin, the boundary of person and the demarcation of place, is real estate ripe for use.

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