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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 ). What was the last year in which you could buy a new car in the United States with a manual choke lever from the factory? It couldn't have been much later than the early 1970s. 1970 Volvo 145 in California junkyard.

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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

As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. San Jose, Calif., As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. When Adobe was founded, the cheapest cost around $10,000.

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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. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. It’s only sand.”

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