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Compaq Portable 1

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Compaq Portable Introduced: November 1982 Released: March 1983 Price: US$3590 (two floppy system) How many? 53,000 in 1983, the first year Weight: 28 pounds. CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz RAM: 128K, 640K max Display: 9" monochrome monitor built-in 80 X 25 text Color graphic card Storage: Two 320K 5-1/4" disk drives Ports: 1 parallel (expansion card) OS: MS-DOS Compaq Computer Corporation was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers who left Texas Instruments and invested $1,000 each to form their own company. Sketched on a paper place mat in a Houston pie shop, the first product was a portable personal computer able to run all of the software being developed then for the IBM PC. The Compaq Portable was the first 100% compatible IBM computer clone. Why make an IBM clone? Because the  IBM PC  was extremely popular, and taken very seriously by businesses looking for a computer system. Problem: Compaq

German Military Tactics / / Blitzkrieg

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A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in 1940. The blitzkrieg was also used by German commander Erwin Rommel during the North African campaign of World War II, and adopted by U.S. General George Patton for his army’s European operations. Conventional wisdom traces blitzkrieg, “lightning war,” to the development in Germany between 1918 and 1939 of a body of doctrine using mobility to prevent repetition of the attritional deadlock of World War I. Soldiers such as Hans von Seeckt and Heinz Guderian allegedly perceived more clearly than their counterparts el

Melawan Romawi

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  "Jangan membunuh perempuan, bayi, tuna netra serta anak-anak. Jangan menghancurkan rumah-rumah atau menebangi pohon." Kata-kata itu diucapkan oleh Rasul. Tiga ribu pasukan pilihannya telah beranjak meninggalkan Madinah. Muhammad mengantarkan mereka sampai keluar kota. Mereka hendak melaksanakan misi suci. Muhammad secara khusus berdoa buat mereka. "Tuhan menyertai dan melindungi kamu sekalian. Semoga kembali dengan selamat." Para prajurit itu bergemuruh menuju utara, ke arah Syam. Syam. Syria sekarang. Sudah lama Muhammad mengincar kawasan ini untuk dakwahnya. Wilayah ini berada di jalur utama perdagangan dunia saat itu, Cina-Eropa. Di Syam pula jalur itu bercabang menuju jazirah Arab dan Yaman, serta menuju Mesir dan seluruh wilayah di Afrika. Maka Rasulullah beberapa kali mengirim misi dakwah ke arah itu. Salah satu misi tersebut adalah ke Dathut Thalha, perbatasan Syam. Muhammad mengirim 15 orang sahabatnya untuk mengajar Islam. Namun mereka