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13th November 2023 - Link Blog

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (via) A must-read from Cabel Sasser, describing his ten year project to collect and digitize copies of the DAK gadget catalog, from 1972 to 1994.

Posted 13th November 2023 at 4:57 am

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