Microsoft shipped out the first copy of Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985.
Nobody auctioned the first copy for an outrageous sum of money and, indeed, somebody suggested during the question and answer session that the book should be made available for free online.
So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.
But with barely 72 hours to rehearse -- Kaye received the first copy of Pendereki's score only on Thursday -- the director said it was Gergiev's abilities to bring the best out of the musicians which brought the orchestra to life.
We judge CD-RW packet-writing performance by copying a folder containing 100MB of files to a CD-RW disc three times: first to the newly formatted blank disc, again after deleting the files from the first copy operation, and finally by overwriting the files from the second operation.
He disagreed that this was good for competition in the books markets and said that the "economics of the e-book industry is quite different to the print industry" because costs are the same up until first copy but after that e-books incur none of costs of printing and distribution.
Unidentified Girl: When you're reading "Harry Potter, " it's kind of like it's your own special little world, and then you realize there are all these people, like, showing up to buy the first copy and you realize that it's everyone else's special world, too, and it's kind of--it's just weird to be, like, part of something so big when it feels like it's just yours.
They were discovered in a first edition copy of Gaskell's two-volume biography, from a private collection, which was also included in the auction lot.
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The scandal at Rutgers probably could have been avoided had Pernetti fired Rice when he first received a copy of the videotape provided by Eric Murdoch, a former administrator on Rice's staff, in late November.
On my first day as a copy editor I opened mine to be greeted by a dead rat.
The comptetiton will, again, need years to first understand and then copy it.
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Mossberg will often be the first critic to get an advance copy of an Apple product, as in March, when he was the first to receive and write about Apple TV, which allows downloaded movies and programs to be viewed on wide-screen TV sets.
As they would also like to make such they start to copy what that first firm or investor is doing.
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All attendees of the webcast will be among the first to get a free copy of the new Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 mailed to them.
He recalled his childhood growing up in Berlin, and produced a copy of his first diplomatic passport as the 11-year-old son of an American diplomat.
First, when a new copy of copia inserts itself into a fly's genetic material, it may cause a deleterious mutation to a previously healthy gene (hence all the copia-related mutations detected by geneticists).
Willian equalized again straight after the break with an almost carbon copy of his first goal, this time with his left foot, but Chelsea hit back again as John Obi Mikel had a goal ruled out for offside and then 21-year-old Nigeria forward Moses followed up his goal in Saturday's Premier League draw with Swansea.
After university she had first got a job writing advertising copy and had then taken up journalism.
Pepper's was unlike anything anyone had heard before, and the day fans first dropped the needle on their copy of the album stuck in their minds.
As soon as we heard about it, we rushed to 1 First Street Northeast and obtained a copy of the slip opinion from the Supreme Court press office.
The checklist, which wasn't created specifically in response to the incident in Colorado, recommended that theater operators verify that "security and front of house personnel have been trained for first aid, " according to a copy reviewed by the Journal.
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Seeing what video editing software did for iMac sales, Microsoft has produced its own Movie Maker suite, while Windows Image Acquisition lets digital photographers see photos as thumbnails on the desktop without having to copy images to the PC first.
But I had no choice but to buy an autographed copy: Flusfeder signed the entire first edition of 4, 000 copies.
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Managed copy is NOT included in the first-gen hardware (and according to this article Blu-Ray won't have it either due to AACS standards not being finalized before launch).
Sound off here, and the first ten people to comment will get a free copy of The Thank You Economy.
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For the first time printers and booksellers were required to deposit a copy of each of their publications in the King's library.
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