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  • F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts by Kaplan, Philip J.
    Philip J. Kaplan

    F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts

    Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And...
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  • Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 by Ornstein, Severo M.
    Severo M. Ornstein

    Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983

    Author: Severo M. OrnsteinISBN-10: 1403315175ISBN-13: 9781403315175Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2002Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 6.99h x 5.05w x 0.73d
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  • The Architecture of the Arm Microprocessors a Resource Guide by Stakem, Patrick
    Patrick Stakem

    The Architecture of the Arm Microprocessors a Resource Guide

    This book presents an overview of the ARM history and architecture, from the 1980's legacy Advanced RISC Machine, to today's 64-bit multicore units. The applications for the ARM in embedded systems is presented, as well as arm-based system-on-a chip designs. Software for the ARM...
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  • Mobile Unleashed: The Origin and Evolution of ARM Processors in Our Devices by Nenni, Daniel
    Daniel Nenni

    Mobile Unleashed: The Origin and Evolution of ARM Processors in Our Devices

    This is the origin story of technology super heroes: the creators and founders of ARM, the company that is responsible for the processors found inside 95% of the world's mobile devices today. This is also the evolution story of how three companies - Apple,...
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  • Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing by Parisi, David
    David Parisi

    Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

    A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of...
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  • The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N.
    Herbert N. Casson

    The History of the Telephone

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Herbert N. CassonISBN-10: 1511576227ISBN-13: 9781511576222Publisher: Createspace Independent...
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  • Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Wood, Lamont
    Lamont Wood

    Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution

    Forget Apple and IBM. For that matter forget Silicon Valley. The first personal computer, a self-contained unit with its own programmable processor, display, keyboard, internal memory, telephone interface, and mass storage of data was born in San Antonio TX. US Patent number 224,415 was...
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  • The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating by Jaton, Florian
    Florian Jaton

    The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

    A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence. Algorithms--often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence--underlie the technologies we use every day, and disputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms arise regularly. In this book,...
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  • Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Bergin, Kevin
    Kevin Bergin

    Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner

    First published in 1985, this user-friendly guide to coding machine language on the Atari 130XE helped many owners of the much-loved home computer achieve programming feats well beyond the limits of BASIC. Based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU running at 1.79 MHz, the...
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  • In the Beginning 2.0: Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers by Glass, Robert L.
    Robert L. Glass

    In the Beginning 2.0: Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers

    Author Robert L. Glass has prepared a guided tour through the personal historical recollections of 18 software pioneers-himself counted among them--including three female pioneers added for this new edition. In the Beginning 2.0: Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers is a history of early computing...
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  • Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption by Jarvis, Craig
    Craig Jarvis

    Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption

    The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s, digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State, made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The antidote: digital encryption. The U.S. government warned encryption would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding...
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  • Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Tang, William
    William Tang

    Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner

    First published in 1982, William Tang's Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner is generally considered to be the best introduction to 8-bit machine code programming ever written. With many great game writers crediting this as the book that got them started, there still...
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  • Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete Mathematics That All Computing Students Should Know by Rosenberg, Arnold L.
    Arnold L. Rosenberg

    Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete Mathematics That All Computing Students Should Know

    Introduction.- "Doing" Mathematics: A Toolkit for Mathematical Reasoning.- Sets and Their Algebras: The Stem Cells of Mathematics.- Numbers I: The Basics of Our Number System.- Arithmetic: Putting Numbers to Work.- Summations: Complex Operations from Simple Components.- The Vertigo of Infinity: Handling the Very Large...
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  • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Medina, Eden
    Eden Medina

    Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

    A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's...
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  • Amstrad Games Book: Cpc464 & Cpc664 by Bergin, Kevin
    Kevin Bergin

    Amstrad Games Book: Cpc464 & Cpc664

    First published in 1985, the Amstrad Games Book helped owners of the CPC464 and CPC664 home computers to learn more about their machines, including how to program a range of games. For many readers, their Amstrad would be the first computer they would ever...
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  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Larson, Erik J.
    Erik J. Larson

    The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do

    "Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."--John Horgan "If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our...
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  • Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by Craddock, David L.
    David L. Craddock

    Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution

    Around the world, millions of people hijack cars in Grand Theft Auto, role play fantastical heroes in World of WarCraft, and crush candy on phones as small as wallets yet nearly as powerful as desktop computers. But long before video games became a multi-billion-dollar...
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  • Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation by Lendino, Jamie
    Jamie Lendino

    Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation

    Atari 8-bit computers are the first machines that truly bridged the divide between video game players and home computer enthusiasts. The Atari 400 and 800 signaled the start of a new era in computing. Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation is the...
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  • Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual by Broughton, John
    John Broughton

    Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual

    You don't have to understand how to edit Wikipedia in order to find the information you need and join the conversation. This booklet gives you just what you need to know in friendly, concise form so you can research any subject without getting lost...
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  • Bitwise: A Life in Code by Auerbach, David
    David Auerbach

    Bitwise: A Life in Code

    An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer lan­guages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach's imagination. With a philoso­pher's...
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  • When Computing Got Personal: A History of the Desktop Computer by Nicholson, Matt
    Matt Nicholson

    When Computing Got Personal: A History of the Desktop Computer

    This is the story of how a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning...
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  • Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra, Vikram
    Vikram Chandra

    Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

    The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first...
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  • The Computer Guy Is Here!: Mainframe Mechanic by Sak Ce, MM John C.
    MM John C. Sak Ce

    The Computer Guy Is Here!: Mainframe Mechanic

    Way back in the last century, back in the 1960s, computers were mammoth mysterious machines. They were immensely expensive yet became essential to daily business operations. Yet, no one ever saw them. Security dictated they be hidden away. Only the computer operators were allowed...
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  • Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry by Dabney, Ted
    Ted Dabney

    Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry

    Since its debut in 1994 as the first comprehensive book about videogame history, Phoenix has been regarded worldwide as the Bible of videogame history by professionals and fans alike. Now in its fourth edition, the text has been completely rewritten and updated to include...
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  • How the ThinkPad Changed the World--And Is Shaping the Future by Naitoh, Arimasa
    Arimasa Naitoh

    How the ThinkPad Changed the World--And Is Shaping the Future

    The ThinkPad notebook computer has been at the center of the digital revolution that has transformed millions of lives around the world, allowing users to obtain access to their documents, pictures and other personal data from virtually anywhere at any time. More than 100...
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  • Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext by Barnet, Belinda
    Belinda Barnet

    Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

    This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet combines an analysis of contemporary literature with her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the hypertext innovation....
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  • The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra by Daylight, Edgar G.
    Edgar G. Daylight

    The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra

    Contrary to what many believe, Alan Turing is not the father of the all-purpose computer. Engineers were, independently of Turing, already building such machines during World War II. Turing's influence was felt more in programming after his death than in computer building during his...
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  • Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) ENIAC Operating Manual by Burks, Arthur W.
    Arthur W. Burks

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) ENIAC Operating Manual

    Created in 1946 as part of a 1,000 page Report on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), this ENIAC Operating Manual provides a fascinating glimpse into the technology behind the world's first electronic, general-purpose computer. Designed and built during WWII at the University...
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  • Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System by Stearns, David L.
    David L. Stearns

    Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System

    Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the...
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  • Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine by Bassett, Caroline
    Caroline Bassett

    Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine

    We live in a moment of high anxiety around digital transformation. Computers are blamed for generating toxic forms of culture and ways of life. Once part of future imaginaries that were optimistic or even utopian, today there is a sense that things have turned...
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  • Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition by Turing, Sara
    Sara Turing

    Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition

    'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised...
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  • Indelible Big Blue Memories: Life in the THINK Tank by Fraser, Winston C.
    Winston C. Fraser

    Indelible Big Blue Memories: Life in the THINK Tank

    This book tells the unlikely story of a shy farm boy who hated school but ended up working more than 25 years for one of the world's most successful companies of the 20th century. It is a candid collection of recollections, more than 25...
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  • A Culture of Innovation by Walden, David
    David Walden

    A Culture of Innovation

    This is a collection of chapters by prior and present senior employees of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) describing the technology and business history the company from the company's founding in 1948 until the mid-2000s. BBN is renowned in computing history as a leading...
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  • The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer by Smith, Christopher David
    Christopher David Smith

    The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer

    This book takes the reader through the design and implementation of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum's custom chip, revealing for the first time the decisions behind its design and its hidden secrets. By using it as case study, the techniques required to design an 8-bit...
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  • The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Niedzviecki, Hal
    Hal Niedzviecki

    The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors

    We have entered the age of "peep culture" a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance...
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  • From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry by McKendrick, David G.
    David G. McKendrick

    From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry

    Momentous developments in the global economy over the last two decades have dramatically increased the availability of industrial investment sites and lowered the cost of relocating core activities to new countries. But how should these developments be exploited for competitive advantage? Firms face competing...
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  • Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics by Mindell, David A.
    David A. Mindell

    Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics

    Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback,...
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  • Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer by Brown, Julian
    Julian Brown

    Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer

    Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse details the remarkable uses for quantum computing in code breaking, for quantum computers will be able to crack many of the leading methods of protecting secret information, while offering new unbreakable codes. Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse is a...
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  • Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Lowe, Janet
    Janet Lowe

    Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

    Ob Sie ihn nun lieben oder hassen - Bill Gates hat ganz allein die technologische Zukunft des 21. Jahrhunderts gepr臠t. "Bill Gates Speaks" dokumentiert Leben und Ambitionen einer weltweit einzigartigen F?rungsperlichkeit, und zwar sowohl aus unternehmensbezogener als auch aus kultureller Sicht. Dies ist das...
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  • Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace by Bennahum, David
    David Bennahum

    Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace

    Today's digital culture traces its roots to the 1980s, when the first computer generation came of age. These original techno-kids grew up with home-brew programs, secret computer access codes, and arcades where dedicated video gamers fought to extend their play by earning "extra life."...
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  • Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors by Shurkin, Joel N.
    Joel N. Shurkin

    Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors

    When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, ENIAC and its offspring...
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  • Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Shasha, Dennis
    Dennis Shasha

    Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

    The 15 scientists whose work is profiled in the book have each made significant contributions to a part of the creation of modern computer science. Some are well-known: Donald Knuth, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis; others are not, although all of their contributions have been...
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  • This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers by Greenberg, Andy
    Andy Greenberg

    This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

    Who Are The Cypherpunks? This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form...
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  • C64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Davis, Danny
    Danny Davis

    C64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner

    First published in 1984, this user-friendly guide to the Commodore 64 helped many owners of the much-loved home computer understand their machine to a whole new level. The details within the book enabled users to take their first steps in programming machine code even...
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  • Dragon Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner by Reyden, John Vander
    John Vander Reyden

    Dragon Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner

    First published in 1983, this easy-to-follow guide to using machine language on the Dragon 32 gave users an excellent insight into the acclaimed machine that many considered well ahead of its time. Though it was more powerful and quicker than many of its competitors,...
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  • Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System by Haase, Chet
    Chet Haase

    Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System

    The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be. In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera...
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  • Building Blocks for BBC Games by Bayley, Bruce
    Bruce Bayley

    Building Blocks for BBC Games

    First published in 1984, this book helped many a budding coder get to grips with the BBC Micro computer, a machine first released in 1981 as part of the BBC Computer Literacy project. Gently introducing the reader to the concept of programming - something...
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  • The Study of Machines: An Introduction to Mechanology by Hochmuth, Weston T.
    Weston T. Hochmuth

    The Study of Machines: An Introduction to Mechanology

    Mechanology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the study of machines and can be described as a protologism for a social science discipline concerned with the analysis and classification of technological artifacts. In general, Mechanology recognizes the four distinct types of machine...
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  • Automating Linguistics by Léon, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Léon

    Automating Linguistics

    Automating Linguistics offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences of language. In the wake of the first mathematisation of the 1930s, two waves followed: machine translation in the 1950s and the development of computational linguistics and...
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  • Words and Power: Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values by Longo, Bernadette
    Bernadette Longo

    Words and Power: Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values

    When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a...
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