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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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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. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. Younger people, if they recognize 3M, it’s probably because of Post-it notes, or more recently its N95 masks.)

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. At Fairchild, Kim also learned how to communicate with and lead other engineers. Frederick E. South Korea’s Founding Lab. Chang Hae-Ja. Kim Choong-Ki.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Concurrently, we'll take impedance measurements, which will let us peek into the internal electrical properties of the fibers.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member? Newsletter Vol. 3 CARB Date with Destiny Move CARB Forward Plug In America Podcasts! 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? htm Advocates of the Th!

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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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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured. Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software. The VIC-20 disk drive was designed in Japan, and the bus was changed from parallel to serial to economize.

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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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