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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

Like so much of coastal California, the Monterey Peninsula, home to famous Pebble Beach golf courses and exclusive towns like Carmel-by-the-Sea (known simply as Carmel), connotes wealth. Nearby, my favorite cheap find, El Charrito Express , served substantial barbacoa wraps stuffed with marinated beef, beans and rice for $6.99.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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So to save time, the company had the hardware and software developed in parallel, the first in Utah and the second by a team led by Warnock in California. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. It let time slip by until, with only one of the contract’s three years left, “everybody hit the panic button,” Warnock says.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Circuit is similar to the Tesla Roadster, a $109,000 sports car produced by a small California company. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Pricing for the Circuit has not been announced but will likely undercut the Tesla. Answer a few questions and get graded on your money skills.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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Competing in California Meanwhile, engineers at Fairchild were also running into difficulties, but technical ones only. Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. Polaroid did order several hundred of these ceramic modules to get the SX-70 to market.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Then California [the production division] wants 50,000 a week, but the manufacturer says, ‘We can’t make that.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. In California, 20% of our electricity comes from zero CO2 renewables (sun, wind, geothermal), another 20% from zero CO2 hydro, and only 20.1% ↓ ↑ report 12 Throwback 11:29AM (4/23/2009) Envi includes the GEM entries.