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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. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

And that includes Atlanta, which is 10 times larger than Asheville.” When you go to these events, you can’t count on having accessible energy for battery charging, so we’d bring in generators.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” Louis, and north of Florida. The reason for the instant success?