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

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There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. At Fairchild, Kim also learned how to communicate with and lead other engineers. South Korea’s Founding Lab.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member? Newsletter Vol. 3 CARB Date with Destiny Move CARB Forward Plug In America Podcasts! 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on. The sound generator was simply a digital-to-analog converter connected to a linear amplifier.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured. The VIC-20 disk drive was designed in Japan, and the bus was changed from parallel to serial to economize. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! It was a lot of fun,” said Ziembicki.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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