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Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. “Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” Then Canon Inc.,

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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. There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured.

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