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

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San Jose, Calif., s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that preceded PostScript in the laboratory but followed it in the marketplace, is described in the June 1986 issue of IEEE’s magazine, Computer (pp. Interpress, the page description language from Xerox Corp.’s Window on PostScript” in MacWeek , Feb. 2, 1988, pp. 2, 1988, pp.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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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. San Jose, Calif., 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. You’re crazy.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Quality still lacking Though these modifications have been made in the C-64 since its introductions, designers who write commercial software for the machine would like to see a few more. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. They don’t test,” said Nelson of Epyx.

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