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When They Electrified Christmas

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advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. However, if the object's provenance is well documented and the item is in good condition, curators may ask for more information, especially if there is a good story attached to it. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. of Chicago.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In the consumer-electronics industry, new products are traditionally introduced to distributors, dealers, the press, and the competition twice a year—during the first weekend in January and the first weekend in June, at the Winter and Summer Consumer Electronics Shows (CESs). Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute!

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Establishing dealer network. This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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