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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Apple alleges that HP’s New Wave interface, requiring version 2.03 also exceeds the rights granted in a November 198S agreement in which Microsoft acknowledged that the displays in Windows 1.0 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations. In March 1989, U.S.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) and New York City.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Burlesque artist Ann Corio was among the celebrities targeted by an illegal wiretapping operation in New York City in 1955. New York City private investigator and attorney John G. Ruh, two rogue employees of the New York Telephone Company. Bettmann/Getty Images. Writing in the July issue of.

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

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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