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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. 24 ] Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Simple pads on the bottom of the case carried the weight, and optical scanners detected the motion of the internal wheels. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons.

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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. Placing an Early Bet on the 68000 Chip The 68000 , with a 16-bit data bus and 32-bit internal registers and a 7.83-megahertz

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa.,

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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. The project was given the internal moniker “4004.”

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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. Taylor’s Alto had a speaker—which played “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” whenever he received an electronic mail message.

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