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... later IBM presented Harvard with the new machine : the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator , or as it came to be known later the Mark I. Fifty - five feet long and eight feet high , it contained nearly a million com- ponents . It ...
... later IBM presented Harvard with the new machine : the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator , or as it came to be known later the Mark I. Fifty - five feet long and eight feet high , it contained nearly a million com- ponents . It ...
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... later recalled . By 1980 , as word of the program's capabilities be- gan to spread , the stores began selling dozens of copies every week . In 1981 the pace picked up still more . In the first two years , all told , VisiCalc sold about ...
... later recalled . By 1980 , as word of the program's capabilities be- gan to spread , the stores began selling dozens of copies every week . In 1981 the pace picked up still more . In the first two years , all told , VisiCalc sold about ...
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... later , of course , Thomas A. Edison found the solution . Edison had been experimenting with the " glow lamp , " or incandescent bulb , in which the electricity passed through a filament instead of through the air . No such bulb had ...
... later , of course , Thomas A. Edison found the solution . Edison had been experimenting with the " glow lamp , " or incandescent bulb , in which the electricity passed through a filament instead of through the air . No such bulb had ...
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