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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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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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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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The Energy Department is also preparing to award as muchas $25 billion in low-cost federal loans for production ofadvanced technology vehicles, with many of the applicationscoming from companies planning to build plug-ins or thebatteries and components needed to power them. The vehicle costs U.S.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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