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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway

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As a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent person, I take road trips every year and have learned some tips and tricks along the way. The hotels have been reviewed in person by trained assessors; only those that meet the criteria are listed.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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Thus, some of the fascination of retrocomputing lies in its detective element, with systems reverse engineered with modern tools, sometimes down to the silicon level, and old design documents unearthed from retiree's attics. Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar!

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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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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