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Happy Birthday Tammy!
by Shifra on August 21, 2016Best wishes for a very happy birthday! *And* Happy 7th Anniversary of Tammy Radio leaving terrestrial radio to become subscriber-supported, uncensored and really quite fabulous. Thanks, Tammy, for being *our voice,* and for creating such a wonderful fellowship of like-minded Conservatives.
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January 24,1984: Steve Jobs Introduces Macintosh
by Shifra on January 24, 2016Doesn’t it seem like yesterday? Via CBS News: January 24th, 1984, 32 years ago today … the day Apple delivered on a promise it made in a Super Bowl commercial just two days earlier…. At $2,500, consumers found that original Macintosh too expensive for what it could actually do. Sales fell short of expectations. And in little more than a year, Jobs was effectively forced to leave the company…. On the verge of bankruptcy in 1997, Apple brought Jobs back — and what followed was a seemingly endless succession of successful Apple products, continuing up to Jobs’ death in 2011 — and beyond…. By the way, the early 1984 Macintosh computer had 0.13 MegaBytes of memory. The iPhone 6S, introduced...