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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. A number of years ago, back when I lived in Milwaukee, I found a couple of blank reel-to-reel tapes created by 3M using the Scotch name. inch floppy.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

The all-new 1955 Bel Wind splendidly redefined Chevrolet with abundance kudos to Jim Wangers. Truth was we were taking Pontiac performance off the race track, like the Corporation wanted, and putting it on the street,” with the GTO, “like the Corporation didn’t want,” wrote Wangers in his reserve Glory Days. AMCI) in 1981.

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