30 yrs. of
DOS & what not.
When the IBM Personal Computer (IBM 5150) was introduced to the world 2530 years ago, it was dramatically clear to most observers that IBM had done something very new and different.
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| The affordable IBM Personal Computer could be as much fun in the home as it was useful in the office or at school. Children could explore music with the system and its built-in speaker or it could be put to use planning family budgets, analyzing stocks or creating a fantasy world for video game play. |
Thirty yrs. ago
today, if you want to be picky.
It’s amazing to me to think that August 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM Personal Computer.
Here's
the fun:
Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act or "LPS") which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled. A qualified officer, which includes any California peace officer or paramedic, as well as any specifically designated county clinician, can request the confinement after signing a written declaration. When used as a term, 5150 (pronounced "fifty-one-fifty") can informally refer to the person being confined or to the declaration itself, or colloquially as a verb, as in 'Someone was 5150'd'.
Coincidence?
2 comments:
Only possibly.
Because I've never known any IBM salesmen with much of an irony quotient.
Good research job, though!
Mental Health Editor:
Well, having been 5150'd, we knew the number of the beast.
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