Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are splitting up after 27 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/bill-gates-and-melinda-gates-are-splitting-up.html?__source=androidappshare ^

[David Chase]

That was really an interesting and amazing story.

History Channel stuff.

My Great Grandmother was born in 1846, in Cork, Ireland.
She came here to the U.S. in 1863, Boston as an Indentured Servant.

That woman lived until 1922.

I marvel at what she had lived through and saw in her lifetime.
Famine in Ireland.
The American Civil War.
From Horse and wagon to cars and aircraft.
World War I.
Penicillin.
So many interesting inventions and times.

Your story made me think that perhaps future generations will look at us in the same way.

From serious medical advancements to technology.

Our Great Grand kids will say stuff like, “ When he was alive no one even had a microwave or cell phone.” LOL

Thanks for the great story.
Have a great day.

[Trillian]

hehehe

[grey_whiskers]

+1.

[roadcat]

Our Great Grand kids will say stuff like, “ When he was alive no one even had a microwave or cell phone.” LOL

And thank you for your story. My Dad owned a Model-T car when he was young. Before he passed, he was awestruck watching the Moon landing on TV in 1969. Then there was my wife's Dad, I tried convincing him that microwave ovens existed that could cook food without fire. He kept laughing at me and said no such thing existed. A few years later he wasn't laughing about it. My daughters tell my grandchildren about the days before cell phones and they find it hard to believe. Grandkids are aces at using iPads, cell phones, video chatting, YouTube video posting, etc., and they are teaching me stuff.

[NorthernTraveler]

I learned many languages over the years. Still have a few decks of cards and 7” reels of the OS of that PDP-11.

For my Plan B paper I wrote a 68000 disassembler to do a comparison on minimal operating systems on 68000 single board computers.

One was interrupt driven and one was polling based.

Oh, I help design an ECU for some small heavy equipment that is still in use. Done in 8052 assembly.

Set up the first academic network in my local high school.

[algore]

Cool, I recently found an old cassette tape that i am pretty sure has an old apple 2 program on it.

I should probably try to load it into an emulator, but i am sure it was integer basic > and most emulators are fp ]

I remember getting my first Microsoft product, a z-80 card so i could run Sargon

[roadcat]

I remember getting my first Microsoft product, a z-80 card so i could run Sargon

I have a large amount of computer memorabilia, can't seem to part with it because of memories of doing stuff over the last 50 years. My kids and grandkids will have to deal with it after I'm gone.

I have Z-80 cards, along with many others that I used on Apple-IIs and Apple-IIIs. Including boards that swap between integer BASIC and FP BASIC. Also cassette tapes with Apple-II programs. However, most old Apple-II programs can be found on the Internet and downloaded. There are even emulator programs to run them on modern computers. As for my first Apple-II, I installed a board that accepts USB2 flash drives and hard drives, and I have a USB flash drive that contains perhaps 6,000 programs on it. My Apple-II is instant-on and can run any of those thousands of programs. Not bad for a 43-year-old computer, still works. Also have LISA and old Macs, but like the old Apple-II programs.

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