... thing to overcome as a modification. I had originally intended to scan my chosen box logo into the computer and improve by using photo editor to smudge the colour and give a professional finish. I accomplished this easily. However I wanted to add text to the logo and a yellow shaded background using fill effects on the computer. Unfortunately I came across computer faults and had problems printing ... box I would find a better way of overcoming this problem because I don't feel the red strips create the correct image. One way of doing this would just be to cut a single line through the ...

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... to connect to the Internet, which is a global communication network. Modems come in many different speeds. Some are 14.4k, 56k these uses a phone line, cable modem (in only large cities, an internet setup that uses a cable line) and many more. Floppy disk drives are drives where you insert a disk to save progress or install programs from .CD ROMs are compact disk ... per second that's more than 10,000 times slower than modern personal computers. It took ENIAC about 20 seconds to solve problems and it took one or two days to finish manually. At least it was much faster and easier than pr...

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... just finishing up his first year at Lakeside, the school purchased a relatively inexpensive Teletype machine. For a fairly hefty fee, users could type commands on the teletype and communicate via telephone line with the PDP-10 minicomputer in downtown Seattle. "Gates was in Paul Stocklin's math class when he got his first peek at the computer room. One spring day, Stocklin took ... at TRW that Bill began to develop as a serious programmer. Gates attended Harvard Law School in the fall of 1973, and was there for about three years. He never did finish his education there; and used to tell...

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