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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 ). Having daily-driven a few cars equipped with dual SUs , I know and love/hate this hardware quite well (and I can say that the license-built Hitachi versions used on Datsuns have far superior build quality).

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs.

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

Cars That Think

by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki. It’s only sand.” We did it in a very modular fashion,” said Yannes.

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