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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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However, Mr. Smith managed to learn enough about Mr. Raskin ‘s conception of the Macintosh to whip up a makeshift prototype using a Motorola 6809 microprocessor, a television monitor, and an Apple II. Thus the decision was made to write a Macintosh operating system from scratch, working from the basic concepts of the Lisa.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In 2018, we were knee-deep in developing a far-out concept to grapple an asteroid with an electronic web, which would allow a network of hundreds or thousands of tiny robots to crawl across the surface as they characterized the asteroid's materials. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing.

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