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Solid State: Minnesota’s High-Tech History

Solid State: Tale of the Tape

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Innovation needs inspiration. One man’s inspiration for recording data came frompianos?

Innovation needs inspiration. And inspiration comes in many shapes and sizes. So is it really so bizarre that one engineer’s inspiration for how digital data gets recorded came frompianos?

10/12/2019

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Solid State: Minnesota’s High-Tech History

Solid State: Tale of the Tape

Special | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions

Innovation needs inspiration. And inspiration comes in many shapes and sizes. So is it really so bizarre that one engineer’s inspiration for how digital data gets recorded came frompianos?

10/12/2019

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