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

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There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. No earlier technology had done them justice.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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During its brief heyday, thousands were built, leading to commercially assembled Galaksijas finding their way into homes and schools across the country. Like many makers, I use a cheap and cheerful TL866-based ROM programmer. And now you can try this scrappy machine for yourself.

DIY 98
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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki.

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