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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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Meet the recipients of the 2022 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, and corporate recognition. and the IEEE Life Members Fund NED MOHAN University of Minnesota Minneapolis “For leadership in power engineering education by developing courses, textbooks, labs, and a faculty network.” IEEE JAMES H. MULLIGAN, JR.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Corporation, Columbia. Corporation). Corporation). University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota. Recovery A team of experts from the University of Minnesota will. The plant will incorporate features that.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

He drew support from members of both groups in planning a detailed itinerary from New York City to Los Angeles and then north along the California coast to San Francisco in 17 days. Corporate sponsorship for the RAR ( www. Michael and Maddy employed multiple Web 2.0 The long journey over the vast U.S.