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Title: Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg amputated above the knee
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Published: Jan 16, 2011
Author: The Envelope
Post Date: 2011-01-16 01:59:41 by christine
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Views: 481
Comments: 39
Zsa Zsa Gabor had most of her right leg successfully amputated Friday, not quite two weeks after she was hospitalized with an infected lesion that doctors feared would cost the actress her life. Calling off an initial Jan. 2 rush to amputate, doctors began treating Gabor with powerful antibiotics in an attempt to save her leg. The wound wouldn't heal, publicist John Blanchette said Friday, which meant amputation was necessary to prevent the spread of gangrene. Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, gave permission a week ago for the surgery to take place. Gabor, 93, has been in and out of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles since breaking her left hip and other bones in a fall in July. She had hip replacement surgery at that time. In the Friday surgery, about three-quarters of Gabor's right leg was removed, starting just above the knee, according to TMZ. Her right leg had been previously damaged; she was using a wheelchair after a car accident in 2002 and a stroke in 2005. The actress and socialite received last rites from a priest in August.
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#18. To: christine (#0)
FOR SALE: Zsa Zsa's 1979 Rolls Corniche. Only $79,900. This 1979 rolls royce corniche has only 47,000 miles california car last titled owner was ZSA ZSA GABOR yes this was the car that she was driving when she slapped the beverly hills police officer kramer its a great car runs great, new convertible top,carbs rebuilt,tune,9/1/2010 please call for any additional info 508 7979979 bet 9am and 9 pm est PLEASE NOTE THIS CAR HAS HAD A COMPLETE REPAINT,AND WILL BE LOCATED IN NAPLES FLA
These digital clocks were quite the rave 32 years ago .. I remember the first digital watches that year were selling like hotcakes for $500 a pop.
I remember when 8-digit calculators cost $1000. 1973, I think. By early 1975, the first home computer was being built, the Altair 8800. I recall reading this mag back in the day.
I got into computers way late - 1982. Had all of them. I'll never forget paying $700 for a dual external 360K read/write floppy drive for my Commodore 64. Loved moving those sprites around. Another one that stands out is paying $1,000 for an HP Deskjet 500 in '86. Laser printers were going for 3 times that much - what a steal!
Interesting how times have changed. My first computer was a generation 1.5 Mac which had 512K of memory, a 9 inch B/W screen, and a single sided hard floppy drive that would put 400K on a disk. The OS was on a floppy and you had to insert the boot disk every time you used the computer. I bought it at a special price in the Navy Exchange for 1500. Software extra. I ended up buying an external dual sided floppy (when it came out) for $300, and a dot matrix printer for $477. Now you can buy a Mac Mini with a several hundred gig hard drive, color graphics, 512M of memory, Monitor, Keyboard, and Laser Printer all for less than I paid for that first Mac which ran a Motorola 68000 processor at about 30Khz. I haven't looked recently but if I recall correctly the current Mac Mini has a Core 2 Duo Processor that is clocked at about 2.5 Ghz. It is more powerful than a VAX was at that time. I can't remember what I paid for my first inkjet - it was the latest and greatest HP at the time and I know it was not cheap, but I think it was under $500.
================================================ In 1986, I got an Atari 520ST. Atari, Apple, and Mac were all trying to catch the historic market for the first GUI-based OS. We know how the battle ended, but Atari really had a shot at it. Then, in '88, I got the 1040ST. Both the 520ST and 1040ST both ran the 1.5 gen Mac OS on a ROM cartridge called "MAC IN A SAC" that plugged into one of the ports on the ST. I had a great time running the Mac software (68000 Motorola emulation) on the ST. Microsoft Windows had tons more software options, and in '89, I got a Gateway 386 with Windows 2.0 on it. I gave $2,400 for it and had to wait in line. Anyhow, Leopard now runs on the Intel hardware. Software is what really drives the hardware industry, and Microsoft has always managed to stay far enough ahead of Apple to get the market share. Windows 7 is their best OS yet.
One day in 84 (?) my biz partner showed up with a Compaq. The first one with the 4" screen and the cover was the keyboard, with a nifty shoulder strap. You could say it was the first laptop. I crapped when he told me it cost $4,500. That said, it allowed us to compete with some big boys and soon paid for itself. About a year later a another partner owed me some $$ so I repoed his Epson. That thing didn't even use DOS, it had it's own OS and you had to write your own programs. I sold it.
IIRC, the Kaypro was the first portable computer running an Intel 8086 or 8088 cpu. Cost was over $5,000.
#30. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#28)
I remember the first HP portables as I was working in Data Processing support at a Naval Ship Repair Facility and we began getting them for the Ship Superintendants (who manage the jobs for the ships). They were definitely not lap tops, and we called them "luggables" rather than "portables" as they weighed 15 or 20 pounds. However, they were also some of the first LCD Screened machines. They ran on an 8086, no hard drive, and used a floppy. Thankfully I only had to support them and not carry the heavy bastards around.
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#19. To: Original_Intent (#18)
Only $79,000
#20. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#19)
January 1975 Popular Electronics
with the Altair 8800 computer
#22. To: TooConservative, Original_Intent (#20)
#23. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#22)
#24. To: Original_Intent (#23)
My first computer was a generation 1.5 Mac which had 512K of memory, a 9 inch B/W screen, and a single sided hard floppy drive that would put 400K on a disk. The OS was on a floppy and you had to insert the boot disk every time you used the computer. I bought it at a special price in the Navy Exchange for 1500.
#27. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, Original_Intent (#24)
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In 1986, I got an Atari 520ST.
#28. To: Flintlock (#27)
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