December 2011
66 posts
Despite what you (or I, for that matter) might think about Microsoft, this is pretty amazing. Edited for clarity and emphasis mine: *** In preparation for the 1978 demo with computer manufacturer Altair, Bill Gates and Paul Allen stored the finished BASIC interpreter on a punched tape that the Altair computer could read and flew to Albuquerque. On final approach, Allen realized that they had...
More from the Internet Spiral: “With membership strictly limited to “veterans of the late unpleasantness,” The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the American Civil War. Although a male organization, the GAR admitted its sole woman member in 1897. Sarah Emma Edmonds served in the 2nd Michigan Infantry as a disguised man ...
Currently in the middle of an Internet Spiral; thought I’d share this: “Daniel Frederick Bakeman (October 9, 1759 – April 5, 1869) may have been the last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War. He was married to Susan Brewer Bakeman, on August 29, 1772. He was 12 years old at the time of marriage, she was 14. She died aged 105 on Sept. 10, 1863. It was a marriage of 91 years,...
