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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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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.
I don't know that I would be so sure that Windows 7 is ahead of the current Mac OS 10.6. The Windows visual interface is really nothing more than a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell. Microsloth was able to get away with copycatting some of the Mac interface because the Judge in the Copyright Infringement lawsuit was either stupid or paid off. I suspect both. However, Microsloth did have to change some of the functionality so the Mac interface still remains a bit more elegant in operation e.g., when you delete something it is gone. You don't have to go into another program register to do a final delete as on the Mac when you empty the trash it IS gonnnnnnnne. Having had to use both I still prefer the Mac iteration, and it is easier to teach to new users. The Mac OS is also more stable and more secure. Not that I have never had OS problems but they have remained minor, infrequent, and easily fixed. And I still have not upgraded to the latest, and won't until I get a new machine as I'm still using a Power Mac dual G4 Tower and it is not supported in the latest edition. Not that I care as the machine works just fine for now. I just wish the fan was quieter.
====================================== You lost me on the "a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell." How does Linux compute in either Windows or Leopard operating systems? I completely agree on the ease of use of Leopard over Windows, especially in the file handling conventions, lassoing, and file dragging ease of use. I don't use CS5 or Lightroom much, but the commands are very similar on both platforms. I got a Nikon D7000 from MammaClause and look forward in working with the NEF RAW pics with the new CS5 High Definition (HDR) post processing. Being a 'gadget guy' is such hell. ;>)
How does Linux compute in either Windows or Leopard operating systems? The original Mac Interface was written in Pascal, and that remained the standard Mac OS language up until the introduction of OS X. OS X is basically a Shell - a "Shell" is an interfacing program which enables the user of a Unix based system (or any other OS for which a shell is written) to input commands to the OS for execution. Typically that is done using a command line using text commands so I probably shouldn't have said shell as GUI or Graphical User Interface would be more correct in describing the Mac OS or Windows. However the GUI is performing the same function just using graphics instead of command lines. So, it is in effect a shell. The DOS command line interpreter is a type of shell that allows a Microsloth user to input text commands to the OS, and DOS still exists. Some DOS commands still work on Windows machines if you bypass the visual interface and use the command line interpreter. The Mac also has a terminal function that allows you to access its command line for direct input, but why bother? I'm not a geek I'm a user. Linux is nothing more than Unix, developed at UC Berkeley, ported over and adapted for use on Microcomputers. The visual interface in Mac OS X is a program which overlays the Linux OS and replicates the original Mac Interface allowing the Mac User to use the same command functions they would have had in the older Pascal based OS but now it is an intermediary that translates mouse clicks etc., into Linux commands which are executed by the underlying Linux OS. So, while the look and feel is the same to a Mac User used to the older system it is effectively a completely different operating system and the only thing retained is the Graphical User Interface, but re-coded for Linux. I hope that all makes sense.
I think I was a little high on the Kaypro price . . LoL
That looks like a 1983 Kaypro IV (the 1984 ones had half-height drives, a 2.5Mhz Z80, and came bundled with Wordstar). I have a friend who has a mint one in working order. I used to write little Z80 assembly programs, utility stuff like setting up ports for easy printing on a serial printer by stealing bytes of memory from the Kaypro copyright notice.
#36. To: TooConservative, Original_Intent (#35)
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============================================== Fast Forward to 2011. Rumor: Windows 8 will be a ROM-BASED operating system for the first time in Microsoft's history. Steve Jobs goes on sudden leave, possible pancreatic cancer. The only programming I have done is in Cobol on a Wang VS-100. I was a sysadmin with right at a $million in hardware assets, WAN, LAN, and real-time DDN interoperability. The VS-100 ran out of a climate-controlled room (ambient 68'F) with anti-static floors with an adjoining sysop admin and co-sysop office with a glass WALL looking into said computer room. I had five 250mb disk drives using glass packs. Each drive cost $35,000. The local lan was connected via RG58 coax. I ran over 8 miles of it in ONE BUILDING. There were 80 BNC/TNC connector ports available to the local LAN connected to a patch panel I built using a heavy gauge metal locker with lockable doors, reinforced with a heavy gauge aluminum panel where the BNC/TNC came in. I spliced all the cable and terminators with just myself and my co-sysop. I'll never forget paying $200 for a coax cable splicing tool. I can't remember how much the RG58 cost. The patch panel sat five feet behind the VS-100 with a 10 inch thick cable bundle running out of the patch panel up through the ceiling, then dispersed throughout a 3 story building. The VS-100 ports were individually configured for the type of hardware connected at the other end (modem, printer, scanner, computer, etc.) We had state of the art Wang 286 computers on our remote LAN hardware connected via telephone line using 300 baud modems. Each one of those were $2,600. High speed band printers back then went for over $20,000. That was in 1986.
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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.
#25. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#24)
#26. To: Original_Intent (#25)
The Windows visual interface is really nothing more than a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell. Microsloth was able to get away with copycatting some of the Mac interface because the Judge in the Copyright Infringement lawsuit was either stupid or paid off. I suspect both.
#29. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#26)
You lost me on the "a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell."
#33. To: Original_Intent (#29)
#35. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#33)
Replies to Comment # 35. I used to write little Z80 assembly programs, utility stuff like setting up ports for easy printing on a serial printer by stealing bytes of memory from the Kaypro copyright notice.
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