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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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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 later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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But there are serious questions about whether work should be organized around certain functions of the brain, rather than the person as a whole. Giordano says he expects workers in the United States and other western countries to object to routine brain scanning. trucking , construction, warehouse operations, and the like.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.), Tags: evdriven. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it?

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