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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. Ford is increasingly a data-driven company fusing both internal and external sources to guide product and marketing offerings and support strategic decision making.

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Taking your electric car abroad: everything you need to know

Drive Electric

As well as personal travel insurance, breakdown cover is another essential you should have. To drive it abroad, you will need to obtain the appropriate foreign travel documentation. Personal travel insurance & relevant documents. ? International Driving Permit (where necessary). ? Passport(s). ?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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Thus, some of the fascination of retrocomputing lies in its detective element, with systems reverse engineered with modern tools, sometimes down to the silicon level, and old design documents unearthed from retiree's attics. Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar!

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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. 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. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking

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Division of Work and Industry/National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution I love the personal, homemaker feel of the built-in recipe card drawer in the bottom of this wall-mounted unit. In April 1961, Sharp demonstrated a 2-kilowatt microwave prototype at the International Trade Fair in Tokyo.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PriusPlus documentation process : CalCars Open Source documentation. PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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