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

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The frequency of the carrier signal used to transmit color information in the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) standard; 3.58 You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. I saw a massive niche in the market that no one was filling, and I believe I am the right person to make products to fill that niche. 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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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. The arrangement further filtered the already limited information from Polaroid.

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

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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. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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

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Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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