We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the
best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 4, 1985
Birthdays:
September 2 North Atlantic - Atlantic US-French expedition discovers the wreckage of the Titanic
900 km off the coast of Newfoundland, 73 years after the White Star liner sank.
Microsoft launches Windows 3.1
New York City
- Vancouver rocker Corey Hart's 'Boy In The Box' peaks at #26 on
the Billboard pop singles chart.
The PC industry was going through significant changes. The Apple's
Macintosh had been released the previous year, and was selling well. But amid
the success, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak resigned to pursue other interests,
and Steve Jobs was ousted by John Sculley. Meanwhile, Intel announced the 16Mhz
80386 -- the company's first 32-bit processor -- and
IBM already had plans to base a PC on the new CPU. Even more provoking, these
plans included a new operating system -- whose outlines were only hinted at in
IBM documents. In time, this operating system would come to be known as OS/2.
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would
live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always
in other places, lost, like sheep. Janet Frame
(b. 1924), New Zealand novelist, poet. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart,
"The Day of the Sheep" (1983).
