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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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During its brief heyday, thousands were built, leading to commercially assembled Galaksijas finding their way into homes and schools across the country. This helped greatly in keeping its component costs within the legal import limit, although the additional computing overhead did slow the Galaksija down significantly.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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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. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. and New York City.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.