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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. You’re going to destroy your house if you build it with that stuff!” Bob and I wondered if we could build something similar. His first comment was, “are you crazy?

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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. Mr. Jobs wanted to commit enough money to build an automated factory that would produce about 300 000 computers a year. But sometimes bright people think a little differently.

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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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