My Century

The Z3 was the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. it was freely programmable via paper tape-software (c1941)

ENIAC was only programmable by manual rewiring or switches. Elizabeth Snyder and Betty Jean Jennings developed the programs for the February 1, 1946 demonstration but no women were invited to the University of Pennsylvania's celebratory dinner.

ENIAC had NO memory until July 1953 when a 100-word expansion core memory, debveloped by Boroughs, was added. ENIAC weighed 27 tons, contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors.

We had dial telephones. "Party Lines" were common with phone numbers shared by two families.

The telephone in our grocery store looked like this one.

Some of my photos were taken with my Brownie Hawkeye camera using Kodak 127 film. Notice the "flash" attachment.

Some of my photos were taken with my Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera

I had many cameras including $700 Nikon digital SLR camera

My Photo Website has videos taken with my Panasonic movie camera

My mother's typewriter was like this one

My generation had typewriters with red and black type

Electric typewriter made typing faster and easier

The IBM Selectric electric typewriter revolutionized typing.

The IBM Selectric used a "ball" instead of keys.

Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer, led the development of the first cellphone with a prototype in 1973.

The modern cellphone is a computer, telephone, typewriter, radio, TV, encyclopdeia, camera and movie camera

The 1924 Packard Straight Eight led the industry in luxury cars with its powerful, eight cylinders, quiet-riding chassis and four-wheel brakes. My grandfather's dealerships sold Packard, Nash and Hudson.

My 2019 Cadillac CT6 - Platinum Edition

What my Cadillac CT6 cost!

Tesla self-driving electric automobile

A driverless taxi
Man in Space

Neil Armstrong on the Moon, July 20, 1969
"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

On Feb. 9, 1971, the Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard their Command Module Kitty Hawk in the south Pacific Ocean.

Salyut Russian Space Station 1971. The Original Space Station

The 21st century Space Station

In April 1973 we began rocketing into space with people and cargo in a Space Shuttle.

A Space Shuttle returns to Earth from outer space. The Shuttle program ended July 21, 2011.

Voyager I was launched 9/5/77 to explore our solar system

Today Voyager I and Voyager II are still traveling. Voyager I is 15 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space.
9/11

9/11 Never Forget

Terrorists hijacked two commercial jets and flew them into the towers

The damage resulted in the collapse of both towers

Over 3,000 people were killed

Ground Zero, NYC

In Memory of Two Towers
Corona Virus

Governors and mayors rolled out decree after decree to terminate economic activity, seemingly heedless of the consequences

Cities became ghost towns

Hospitals became hazmat facilities

Doctors who objected were threatened and accused of Vodou

Senoiors were locked away

Businesses were shuttered

Millions closed for good!

Social distancing was mandated

Masks were mandated

Social distancing and masks didn't save anyone!

The viccine was mandated or lose your job

People scrambled to get the vaccine

Administering vaccine in carss

Masks and social distancing was everywhere

Schools went to extremes

Bubbles instead of masks!

When MADNESS proved fruitless. schools were closed

CDC counted flu, pnemonia, and "probable covid" as confirmed covid deaths

The media hid the truth that 80% of the deaths were infirmed elderly and people with 3 or more cormobidities
Riots of May 2020

Black Lives Matter became emboldened

Abolish the Police was encouraged

Bricks were ripped out

Bricks were thrown at police

Police stations were destryed or burned down

Minneapolis saw over $500 million in damages and 150 buildings set on fire.

BLM protestors destroyed 1,500 buildings by fire and left 10,000 people homeless in Portland

Police cruisers and station houses were firebombed,

"We have seen mothers and veterans who were peacefully demonstrating"

RIOT DENIAL -- "They are mothers, veterans and mayors"

Banks were broken into, ATMs ripped out of walls, pharmacies were plundered for drugs

On a national scale property damage was assesed at $2 billion.