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How USB Came to Be

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USB ports now are standard on personal computers and are built into many other electronic devices such as smartphones, eBook readers, and game consoles. That approach allowed USB to work at low speed for low-cost peripherals with unshielded cables and at high speed for devices with shielded cables, such as printers and floppy-disk drives.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982.

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