On the highway, with the 3.73 gears I get pretty good gas milage, relatively speaking. In the city, I think it gets gas milage, in the sense, that you can likely go at least a mile on a gallon of gas if there isn't too many traffic lights or hills, lol.
Friday April 3, 2026 — Old Smokey
Home to the famous Quadrajet aka Rochester Carburetor and many other components for generations of General Motors cars from cigarettes lighters to emissions equipment. They are still around - for a while they were spun off as the Delphi Parts Corporation but now they are the General Motors Parts Corporation. If you drive a car by the General likely part of it was manufactured here.
In the years leading up to its 7 April 1964 launch, however, the 360 was one of the scariest dramas in American business. It took a nearly fanatical commitment at all levels of IBM to bring forth this remarkable collection of machines and software. While the technological innovations that went into the S/360 were important, how they were created and deployed bordered on disaster. The company experienced what science policy expert Keith Pavitt called “tribal warfare”: people clashing and collaborating in a rapidly growing company with unstable, and in some instances unknown, technologies, as uncertainty and ambiguity dogged all the protagonists.
Ultimately, IBM was big and diverse enough in talent, staffing, financing, and materiel to succeed. In an almost entrepreneurial fashion, it took advantage of emerging technologies, no matter where they were located within the enterprise. In hindsight, it seemed a sloppy and ill-advised endeavor, chaotic in execution and yet brilliantly successful. We live in an age that celebrates innovation, so examining cases of how innovation is done can only illuminate our understanding of the process.
This is a rather fascinating story about the history of the technology.
Turn this counter clockwise and it saves fuel. Above that is a rare device that cars all used to have that told you how fast you were driving. But not many 2026 model year vehicles have either device.
Friday April 3, 2026 — Old Smokey
