Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at #Normandy, #France, where ~160k #Allied troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on #America was in charge of #AlliedForces & it was the beginning of the end of #WWII
As we commemorate the 80th Anniversary of #DDay, I would hope that some people on the right who know better would set their ambition aside for a moment & contemplate one of the reasons that horrific slaughter happened….
The bond between the #UnitedStates, #Canada & #Europe has been as strong as ever since that cataclysmic event 8 decades ago, at least until recently. Today Europe is bewildered by what is happening to its American #allies. & you can't blame them. Most Americans wonder the same….
time for fairly obscure canadian retrocomputing history
IBM Home Computing seems to have been a canada-only chain of retail stores that sold IBM products. it didn't last long here - maybe 5-10 years - before it disappeared in the early 2000s. we had a single location in downtown Edmonton City Centre Mall in the mid-90s.
it wasn't the place to go for the best deals on hardware and software. everything was sold at retail prices, and i remember seeing very few sales. i remember buying my Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold at the downtown location as a first-year university student for the princely sum of $300.
as you can see in the last photo - buying an IBM in 1994 was a major investment. you could buy three used cars at the time for less than a pentium desktop. 😬
does anyone else remember these retail stores? did they exist in the US, or was it a canadian chain?