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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

A number of years ago, back when I lived in Milwaukee, I found a couple of blank reel-to-reel tapes created by 3M using the Scotch name. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. I admittedly have long had a fascination with these reel-to-reel tapes.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

The all-new 1955 Bel Wind splendidly redefined Chevrolet with abundance kudos to Jim Wangers. Wangers took it as an indication and attempted his hand working a automobile dealership in Milwaukee. If truth be told, there already had been many indicators available in the market since the high-performance marketplace used to be tanking.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Wind Energy Project: GLPTC seeks to reduce its electrical energy usage by investing in a renewable source of energy to be generated by wind using equipment on site.

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