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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Although his family pressed him to join his father in the textile industry, he instead chose to pursue electrical engineering. South Korea’s Founding Lab.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. New York City and London, 1980), reprints his 1963 Ph.D. Smith et al.,

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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. 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. To quell further public uproar, the New York state legislature in Albany appointed. Bettmann/Getty Images.

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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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