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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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But just like SpaceX critics who insisted that orbital rockets would never land on a drone ship in the middle of the ocean, or Tesla skeptics who insisted that the Model 3 was a lemon that no one would buy, The Boring Company’s critics may very well be missing a crucial point. . Similar tunnels could be built in Florida soon as well.

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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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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. The trainees were to sit on the mockup of a ship’s bridge, surrounded by five 12-foot-high, 30-ft-long (3.6-by-9

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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. “It This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. Artwick was right.

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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. Mr. Jobs wanted to commit enough money to build an automated factory that would produce about 300 000 computers a year. So one key challenge for the design group was to use inexpensive parts and to keep the parts count low.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. in Rochester, NY.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. We did it in a very modular fashion,” said Yannes. It’s a personal challenge.

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