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

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San Jose, Calif., 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. 2, 1988, pp.

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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. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. It’s only sand.”

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