Obadiah-Mafriq
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j6j642k wrote
Reply to TIL that the popular Springfield (Missouri) style cashew chicken dish was invented by a Chinese born chef who also among other achievements was part of the D-Day invasion. by es_price
I'm pretty sure Leong's was the first place I ever had cashew chicken, back in the 1970s.
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mz8ap wrote
Reply to comment by redgus78 in TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS by Profile_Salty
I think my first was The Tardis BBS, run by The Doctor on his Commodore 128 in Valdosta, Georgia in 1983. It was a fun community. (In 1983 it was still running on his Commodore 64, though.) [edited to add the parenthetical]
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mcpec wrote
Reply to comment by Profile_Salty in TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS by Profile_Salty
I also have one, but no 154x drives, just cartridges--including modern ones that let you use microsd cards with disk images on them. People are still developing software and hardware for them. You can get wifi modems (I don't have one yet), and there are Commodore BBSes on the Internet.
Someone released a Super Mario Brothers port about four years ago.
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5ln3x2 wrote
Reply to TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS by Profile_Salty
So tortuously slow and clunky, but looked good. I think I did my resume on it, though, WYSIWYG! and printed it out with fonts! on my Okidata dot matrix printer.
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j0dunb0 wrote
Reply to TIL Vincent Price published various cookbooks including a five volume series titled Mary and Vincent Price present a National Treasury of Cookery. Price promoted the cookbooks on TV shows including on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson where he demonstrated how to poach a fish in a dishwasher. by trifletruffles
He had a cooking show on tv, too. "Cooking Price-Wise"
Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j78hloc wrote
Reply to comment by ricottapie in Indiana man dies after falling from Puerto Rico cliff while filming a TikTok video by Qlanger
Yeah, I shouldn't have clicked through, then googled. Made me cry.