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  • Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Smith, Douglas K.
    Douglas K. Smith

    Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

    Author: Douglas K. SmithISBN-10: 1583482660ISBN-13: 9781583482667Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1999Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.04w x 0.74d
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  • In the Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of Consciousness by Naydler, Jeremy
    Jeremy Naydler

    In the Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of Consciousness

    Contemporary life is deeply reliant on digital technology, and computers have come to dominate nearly every aspect of our culture. What is the philosophical and spiritual significance of this dependence on electronic technology for our relationship to nature and for the future of humanity?...
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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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  • Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing by Bardini, Thierry
    Thierry Bardini

    Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing

    Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, Engelbart, along with a small team of...
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  • Digital Equipment Corporation by Earls, Alan R.
    Alan R. Earls

    Digital Equipment Corporation

    Through photographs of people, events, and machines, Digital Equipment Corporation tells the story of the unassuming computer revolutionaries who reshaped the technological world.From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself a role in American business unlike any...
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  • Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web by Ankerson, Megan Sapnar
    Megan Sapnar Ankerson

    Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web

    From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industryIn the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal...
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  • Moonbit by Mosteirin, Rena J.
    Rena J. Mosteirin

    Moonbit

    MOONBIT is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text,...
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  • From Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Gerovitch, Slava
    Slava Gerovitch

    From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics

    In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the...
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  • The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise by Ensmenger, Nathan L.
    Nathan L. Ensmenger

    The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise

    The contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a...
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  • Poc or Gtfo, Volume 3 by Laphroaig, Manul
    Manul Laphroaig

    Poc or Gtfo, Volume 3

    Volume 3 of the PoC GTFO collection--read as Proof of Concept or Get the Fuck Out--continues the series of wildly popular collections of this hacker journal. Contributions range from humorous poems to deeply technical essays bound in the form of a bible. The International...
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  • Amstrad Games Book: Cpc464 & Cpc664 by Bergin, Kevin
    Kevin Bergin

    Amstrad Games Book: Cpc464 & Cpc664

    This is the collector's hardback edition of the Amstrad Games Book.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,...
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  • Shell of an Idea: The Untold History of PowerShell by Jones, Don
    Don Jones

    Shell of an Idea: The Untold History of PowerShell

    "In many ways, this is The Phoenix Project for the PowerShell world."Introduced in 2006, Microsoft's PowerShell made an immediate, positive impact on its server products and in the lives of the people who administer them. The world's first object-oriented shell, the first designed-from-scratch shell...
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  • The Spectrum of Adventure: A Brief History of Interactive Fiction on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum by Christie, Thomas A.
    Thomas A. Christie

    The Spectrum of Adventure: A Brief History of Interactive Fiction on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

    The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in British history, selling over five million units in its 1980s heyday. Amongst the thousands of games released for the Spectrum during its lifetime, the text adventure game was to emerge as...
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  • Accidental Empires by Cringely, Robert X.
    Robert X. Cringely

    Accidental Empires

    Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd...
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  • A People's History of Computing in the United States by Rankin, Joy Lisi
    Joy Lisi Rankin

    A People's History of Computing in the United States

    Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes....
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  • Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Bernhardt, Chris
    Chris Bernhardt

    Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science

    An accessible and fascinating exploration of how Alan Turing's mathematical theory gave rise to modern computer science and applications--from the desktops to cell phones In 1936, when he was just 24 years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the...
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  • The Sierra Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line by Mills, Shawn
    Shawn Mills

    The Sierra Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line

    The Sierra Adventure tells the story of legendary computer game company Sierra On-Line, developers of industry defining titles such as King's Quest, Quest for Glory, and Leisure Suit Larry. Told through the words of the people who worked there, designers, artists, programmers, animators, musicians,...
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  • Inventing the Internet by Abbate, Janet
    Janet Abbate

    Inventing the Internet

    Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental...
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  • Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer's Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s by Morabito, Margaret Gorts
    Margaret Gorts Morabito

    Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer's Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s

    Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer's Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s brings you on a journey recounting the experiences of working at Commodore Business Machines from 1983 to 1986, as seen through the eyes of a young hardware engineer, Bil Herd....
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  • The Jupiter ACE Manual - 40th Anniversary Edition by Vickers, Steven
    Steven Vickers

    The Jupiter ACE Manual - 40th Anniversary Edition

    Launched at the peak of the legendary 1980s microcomputer rivalry, the Jupiter ACE was the most intriguing machine of them all, marketed by Jupiter Cantab. This company was founded by Richard Altwasser and Stephen Vickers - the key hardware and software designers for the...
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  • Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games by Lendino, Jamie
    Jamie Lendino

    Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games

    From their haunts in the shadowy corner of a bar, front and center at a convenience store, or reigning over a massive mall installation bursting with light, sound, and action, arcade games have been thrilling and addicting quarter-bearers of all ages ever since Pong...
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  • Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer by Swaine, Michael
    Michael Swaine

    Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

    In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their...
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  • The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World by O'Grady, Stephen
    Stephen O'Grady

    The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World

    The New Kingmakers documents the rise of the developer class, and provides strategies for companies to adapt to the new technology landscape. From recruiting to retention, it provides a playbook to work more efficiently and effectively with the most important members of your organization.Author:...
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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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  • A Brief History of Computing by O'Regan, Gerard
    Gerard O'Regan

    A Brief History of Computing

    The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization, and the need for increasingly sophisticated calculations has grown as towns and communities evolved.This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation - from 3000 B.C. to the present day...
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  • Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play by Ramsay, Morgan
    Morgan Ramsay

    Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play

    "Gamers at Work is a critical resource for new and experienced business leaders--for anyone who feels unprepared for the demanding and seemingly insurmountable trials ahead of them." --Peter Molyneux OBE, founder, Lionhead Studios "Gamers at Work explores every imaginable subtlety of the video-game industry...
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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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  • 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...
    $25.99
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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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  • 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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