B.J. Major

Internet music discographer for 25 years. Former Apple Computer & Walt Disney World employee. I love 1960s Mattel toys. Arcade games & pinball enthusiast.🕹♿️

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Posting this almost in desperation to have more people see this most excellent PBS/BBC series from 1992:
Episode 1: Giant Brains
Episode 2: Inventing the Future
Episode 3: The Paperback Computer
Episode 4: The Thinking Machine
Episode 5: The World at Your Fingertips

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@DannyEFreeman @CNN How dare those people clap.

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@GeorgeRoush Good. Serves Florida right.

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@JackWhitlock Never!

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@kansandoge From her print advertising: "No finer service, afloat or ashore".

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@wjmoore17 Norwegian Cruise Lines was one of the companies who bought the SSUS over the years; they then made plans to bring it back to active service, then abruptly changed their minds & sold it. 👎🏻

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@LibertyImages Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@16bitnostalgia The one console I still own.

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@REDTHEDOG5 Yes!! Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@Hodosam Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@CMCanidae And that's what is WRONG. The SS United States is a superior ship to the QM in every respect. In build quality, speed, record holding, safety, everything. The SSUS deserved to be repurposed just like the QM was. Not sunk.

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@ElectronixPurge Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@ElectronixPurge Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@nviebs15 Wrong!!!

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@CertifiedLeggi Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@texan_trunks It's been MANY decades. United States Lines took her out of commission & sealed her up in 1969...

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@duffing_it_up Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸

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@JackLinFLL 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

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@onorma_ Absolutely. I already read two hours a day, now! 📚

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@life_of_niebz Yep!

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@SOU_railman @TheTruthAbound Aluminum floats! Gibbs' engineering overbuilt this ship! 🇺🇸