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UNIVAC 1100/90 computer system (1982) was the largest, and final, member of the 1100 Series, and was the only system to be liquid-cooled. Secretary not included, but comes with a dishwasher module.




May 22, 1980: Happy 45th birthday to PAC-MAN. Did you know that the colorful ghosts of Pac-Man all had a different personality? While Western audiences will know them by their names of Blinky or Pinky, their original Japanese names were clues to their behaviors in the game.


Pac-Man turns 45

In September 1983, Atari sent 14 truckloads of unsold Atari 2600 cartridges and other equipment to a landfill in the New Mexico desert, later labeled the Atari video game burial. Long considered an urban legend that claimed the burial contained millions of unsold cartridges, the site was excavated in 2014, confirming reports from former Atari executives that around 700,000 cartridges had actually been buried.

After deliberating over what to do with some 1,300 copies of E.T. and other Atari games buried in the desert in 1983 and recovered last month, the Alamogordo City Commission has decided to have 700 of the cartridges "appraised, certified, and put up for sale," Polygon reported on Friday.

More than 700,000 copies of E.T. and other Atari games were left in the landfill and covered up again because it was tougher to recover them than the diggers had originally foreseen, Alamogordo mayor Susie Galea told Polygon.

The cartridges were unearthed on April 26 [2014] at the culmination of a highly publicized excavation of a dump outside of Alamogordo, which is located about 150 miles southwest of Roswell, N.M., vindicating believers in a long-running legend in gaming circles about a financially-strapped Atari burying millions of E.T. cartridges in dumps like the one outside of Alamogordo in the early 1980s.

Atari's legendarily awful E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was such a commercial bomb, the company reportedly found itself stuck with 3 million or more unsold copies of the video game a little more than a year after it was released.

Canadian film production companies Lightbox and Fuel Entertainment, which orchestrated the Microsoft-sponsored dig for the buried games, have already received 100 cartridges, the site said. Some 400 recovered Atari 2600 cartridges will be donated to the New Mexico Museum of Space History, which is helping to prepare and certify the 700 going up for sale, and other museums and institutions, according to Polygon.

Atari's Buried E.T. Games Up for Sale

In pop culture, the music video for the song "When I Wake Up" by Wintergreen depicts the band traveling to the landfill site and proceeding to dig up the abandoned cartridges.




May 22, 1984: The CIA sponsored a remote viewing session of Mars on. While the reviewer is not known according to the document, it is now assumed to have been Joseph McMoneagle.



CIA Mars Exploration (PDF)


Meanwhile, today, shots fired outside CIA HQ...


Guards shoot one person in security incident outside CIA headquarters

Israeli Embassy Staff Killed by a crazy leftist in Washington DC is not going to "free Palestine," it is going to grease the wheels for its complete destruction.


Likely a mouthpiece for the Israeli lobby in Washington...


https://x.com/RT_com/status/1925623110897651778


The other battlefield carnage to the East...


https://x.com/RT_com/status/1925569219690729505

As Putin has repeated countless times, "Address the root causes" or else Ukraine will cease to exist.

But, smoking is fine...




PM Keir Starmer today signed an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. One of the last remnants of the British Empire, the islands belonged to the UK for 211 years and host the strategically crucial Diego Garcia military base. The transfer of sovereignty is expected to take place later this year.




The House passes "One Big Beautiful Bill" (also known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") is a piece of legislation currently before the House of Representatives. It's a comprehensive bill that nobody will read which covers a wide range of issues, including tax cuts, energy policies, regulatory reforms, and border security.

Two Republicans, Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson, voted no with all Democrats. The 3 Democrats who would of possibly made the losing vote 214-217, died in office this year.


H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act





His retirement parachute is now in tatters...


Retired four-star admiral found guilty of bribery after accepting $500K-a-year job in exchange for lucrative Navy contract

You'd think a 4-star admiral would have learned lessons from the 20-year long Fat Leonard scandal that busted admiral's on bribery charges.