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Born on 16 May 1906 in Caracas, Venezuela, his parents were general [1] Arturo Uslar Santamaría and Helena Pietri de Uslar. [2] [3]The last name Uslar is of German origin and can be traced back to Johann von Uslar, who fought for the rebel cause during Venezuela's independence wars.
Apuntes Sobre Literatura Cubana (Colibrí, Madrid, 2005). Several of his essays have been translated into English, French, and German. In 2015 he published La ruta natural (Vaso Roto, Madrid, 2015), an amphibious book, part memoir, part essay, whose subject is the fragment.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
The Los Angeles Free Press, also called the "Freep", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. [2] The Freep was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971 and continued on as its editor-in-chief through June 1973. The paper closed in 1978.
By 1960, magnetic core was the dominant memory technology, although there were still some new machines using drums and delay lines during the 1960s. Magnetic thin film and rod memory were used on some second-generation machines, but advances in core technology meant they remained niche players until semiconductor memory displaced both core and ...
The musicians accompanying him would later form the critically acclaimed 1960s/1970s roots rock group The Band. July 30: Medicare is signed into law in the U.S., giving senior citizens the ability to afford health care, without worrying about being dependent upon children or losing their assets.
Guillermo Álvarez Macías (16 October 1919 – 18 December 1976) was a Mexican general manager of the co-operative cement company Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, S.C.L. from 1955 until his death in 1976. Álvarez Macías led the company's re-foundation into a cooperative company town. [2]
This was basically a rebadged Olivetti M19 personal computer. [25] The difference is that the 8088 CPU runs at 8 instead of 4.77 MHz and instead of 5.25 inch floppy drives it uses 720 kB 3.5 inch. The client had the choice to use the same XT layout based keyboard as on ETV 260 or the keyboard of a serial connected ET 112 or ET 116 typewriter.