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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

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“Ali Baba knew how men buy lime.”. The beach is dry and shallow at low tide.”. Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine. In any case, I started wondering if there might be another copy of the magazine in our stacks and, if so, where it might be located.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “I Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. Whenever a competitor came out with a product, we would buy and dismantle it, and it would kick around the office.” This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.”

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.”

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. They lacked completely the sophisticated design tools of today’s engineering workstations, but they had one readily available design tool found almost nowhere else in the home-computer industry: a chip-fabrication line on the premises. It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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