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A former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's...
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The sophomore season of the hit tech-centered drama hits the ground running. It's March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. The Giant is about to go the way of the dinosaur, like any number of personal computers to enter the market in the wake of IBM. The lesson is harsh but clear.
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"Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms - humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she's cuter than any current model he's ever seen, but when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into teaching Chi the ins and outs of humanity, a mystery...
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New literacy volume 11-12
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The 1st program examines how data is read by an EDP system and how the computer performs arithmetic and logical operations. The 2nd program examines fitting microcomputers into the EDP spectrum and the growth of the personal computer industry.
17) Viva Amiga
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In 1985, an upstart team of Silicon Valley mavericks launched what seemed to be a miracle: the Amiga computer. It was a machine made for creativity, for games, for art, and for expression. Breaking from the mold set by IBM and Apple, this was something new.
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