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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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Amid the many tonnes of standard crew supplies, spacewalk equipment, computer hardware, and research experiments will be one unusual package: a pair of electronic textile swatches embedded with impact and vibration sensors. In each case, electronic fabrics sensitive to vibrations and charge could serve as a foundational technology.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Mr. Smith, who was in charge of the computer’s entire digital hardware design, and Mr. Herzfeld became close friends and often collaborated. In the end, Apple got a commitment from Zilog to supply the part, which Mr. Espinosa attributes to the negotiating talents of Mr. Jobs. Also, Apple hadn’t yet sold a million Apple IIs.

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