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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. inch floppy.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." IEEE Spectrum article.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif.,

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CortezHigh School : Plymouth Laser, Dodge Rampage and Pontiac Fiero KearnyHigh School : Porsche 924 {Returnto top of page} EV RacingSites and Organizations Carolina EV Challenge : Highschool EVs Demseys World Record Associates :electric streamliner "White Lightning" did 245.524 mph. Nuts& Volts Magazine : For the serious gadgeteer.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. The Aurora 100 is now used by corporations to develop in­ house training films and presentation graphics. and Toronto, Ont., Frame buffer. Local area network.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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For Steven Jobs, the 29-year-old chairman of Apple and the Macintosh project’s director, it offered a chance to prove himself in the corporate world after a temporary setback: although he cofounded Apple Computer, the company had declined to let him manage the Lisa project. The interesting thing about this business,” mused Mr.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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But as soon as the production bugs were worked out and Commodore knew it had a winner, the corporate bureaucracy, which until then had been on the West Coast dealing with the VIC-20 and the Pet computer, moved in. “At Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! review software and publish programs that run on the C-64.

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