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

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Today it has been adopted by 23 manufacturers of laser printers, with more still signing on. Jobs suggested that Adobe become a software company, sell to manufacturers instead of at retail, and negotiate a licensing agreement with Apple. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. San Jose, Calif., 2, 1988, pp.

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The Sneaky Standard

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It was essentially the same device on every platform, and yet, KoalaPad’s manufacturer, Koala Technologies, had to make five different versions of this device, with five different manufacturing processes, five different connectors, five different software packages, and a lot of overhead. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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The photocell, for instance, operating with as little as 15 picoamperes, had to maintain its state in an environment in which the motor, the solenoids, and the firing of the flash lamps drew amperes of current. And manufacturing problems were tremendous, especially with the gigantic and therefore fragile ceramic substrate.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. It designs and manufactures extremely small networking hardware electronics boards for small drones and mobile robots. 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.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Designing the next great chips In the late 1970s, MOS Technology was a successful semiconductor company; its engineers had designed the popular 6502 microprocessor, and it manufactured several other solidly selling products. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. It’s only sand.” You design it in.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States.

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