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Junkyard Find: 1972 Ford Econoline "BIG CHEESE"

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Customized Detroit vans from the 1960s and 1970s , of course ! There are faded illustrations of cheese and (I think) meat that appear to date back to the 1970s. Perhaps it started out in St. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over. Penney sold Pinto mopeds during the 1970s.

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

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. In the mid-1970s, close to half of the top 100 computer scientists in the world were working at PARC, and the laboratory boasted similar strength in other fields, including solid-state physics and optics. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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