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Junkyard Find: 1972 Ford Econoline "BIG CHEESE"

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I think this van began its career as a work vehicle for a market or caterer in the Denver metropolitan region, then became an individual's personal transportation in later decades. Perhaps it started out in St. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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