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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar! One of the best reproductions of the Elf is Lee Hart's US $89 Membership Card kit , which compresses an Elf into two circuit boards that fit into a Altoids tin. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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We’re saving the end user, the contractor, the guy who uses them a lot of hassle to buy this battery, store them. So yeah, so we have sold a few hundred thousand products over the last three years when we started selling commercially. We have a globally exclusive deal for electronic shelf labels, the small price tags in the stores.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. While a research manager at Intel Corp., then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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Commercially available tools, Intel’s engineers say, do even worse. In the normal course of events, a small tester—a logic analyzer with a personal computer interface—in the design department is working on a new chip’s circuits long before the larger testers in product engineering get in on the act. a division of Unisys Corp.).

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only. Brights commercial truck, however, could actually make a big difference  even if you and I cant run out and buy one.

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