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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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

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Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. 2, 1988, pp.

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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.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Commercial - Intel Inside Pentium Processor (1994) www.youtube.com Embracing standards: the computing industry’s gift to itself In the 1980s, when you used the likes of an Apple II or a Commodore 64 or an MS-DOS machine, you were essentially locked into an ecosystem. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. So how did we get it?

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. Elijah says access to journals and magazines in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is helping him keep up to date on advances in his field. Many founders bootstrap their company to survive. IEEE is helping members who are entrepreneurs save money through its new Powered by IEEE program. in Burbank, Calif.

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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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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.