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A study in contrasts: OTD, September 30th

In 1889, Wyoming voters endorsed women’s right to vote. In 1962, two men died in Mississippi during mob violence protesting desegregation.

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Sometimes, the quotation is real

Grant warned that a second civil war would be “between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.”

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Thinking Portability: The Osborne 1 Is 30 Today

It was early 1984. Apple had just released the Macintosh, but IBM (and its partner/stepchild/competitor Microsoft) had jumped into the nascent personal computer market in mid-1981 with the IBM PC. However, the tried-and-true operating system (or tired-and-old, depending on your point of view) of the day was not DOS but CP/M. Somehow I convinced my […]