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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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The all-new navigation system entered testing in late 1994 and was put into production Oldsmobiles for the 1995 model year. The high-tech navigation relied on multiple hard disk cartridges rather than multiple map CDs. & Guidestar testing ramped up in a second location, Florida, after San Jose testing received positive reviews.

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Junkyard Find: 1970 Volvo 145

The Truth About Cars

This one now resides in the same San Jose Pick-n-Pull as three Renault Dauphines (including a Gordini ). Did the owner finally trade it in on a new Volvo? Plenty of curmudgeonly Silicon Valley tech-industry workers drove old Swedish cars to work for decade after decade. 1970 Volvo 145 in California junkyard.

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

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The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. San Jose, Calif., New York, 1985). and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Co.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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In 1967 he left the startup and joined the Fairchild R&D Laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. Sampson earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and chemical engineering in 1952 from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon. He also was an electrical engineering professor at Illinois Tech , in Chicago.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: After being sucker-punched first by the recession and then by the closure earlier this year of the NUMMI plant with its nearly 5,000 auto-worker jobs, the Bay Area’s fourth-largest city is suddenly coming to — buoyed by last week’s news that electric-car maker Tesla will jump-start NUMMI. Hub of green tech.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech.

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