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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. San Jose, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. .; San Jose, Calif., MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. But as soon as the production bugs were worked out and Commodore knew it had a winner, the corporate bureaucracy, which until then had been on the West Coast dealing with the VIC-20 and the Pet computer, moved in. “At To probe further.

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