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Floppies have had a surprisingly long life—in January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions. They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions.

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JULY 2, 2023

make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. 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 Elaborate color foldouts in major magazines pictured the Macintosh and members of the design team.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. In October 1969, Hoff, Mazor, and the three Japanese engineers met with Busicom management, visiting from Japan, and described their divergent approaches. San Jose, Calif.,

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APRIL 2, 2022

a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. is likely to unveil a prototype plug-in hybrid at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit as part of its company-wide focus on "electrifying" the car, GM officials said Thursday. Bloomberg ). Reuters ).

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