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Originally Posted by john70t
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Back when the first IBM PC was released my boss went to the IBM store, and the salesman talked up the first 4.77 MB dual floppy with 640K of RAM so the boss bought it. We followed the directions and it booted up to A> and sat and blinked. There was ZERO software for doing anything except write your own code. I still have a copy of the IBM PC DOS 1.1. It was just $7,000
The boss boxed it up and took it back. The salesman was reluctant, but he took it back at full value, and sold a IBM System 36 with 8 inch floppies and an accounting package designed for a warehouse. We had no inventory to keep track of, but we could get reports on the sales and what departments did what.
James Butler, (Wild Bill Hickok 1837-1876) met William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill 1846-1917) at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas both working for a Stagecoach and wagon freight Company, Russell, Major's and Waddle.
This photo was taken in 1873.
IWO JIMA.
Echelons of Amtracks churn their way ashore to crawl up the invasion beach of Iwo Jima and bring their loads of Marines another step on the road to Tokyo. Quoted from the original photo caption, released by the Pacific Fleet on 22 February 1945. The LVT (amphibious tractor, or amtrack) in the foreground is marked SA-29. Collection of James Edwin Bailey. Donated by his wife, Helen McShane Bailey, 2006. Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION. (NHHC)
1949 Jeep graveyard in Okinawa