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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

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. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s.

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

Baua Electric

Wangers took it as an indication and attempted his hand working a automobile dealership in Milwaukee. This corporate ran qualified USAC trying out/comparisons for usefulness in advertising — for instance, claims like “Best in Class” for a specific metric in an commercial may well be sponsored up by means of AMCI documentation.

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