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Commodore Sloat had previously raised the US flag, without resistance, at Monterey, but had no plan to conduct any further military operations on shore and once relieved, sailed home to the United States, leaving Commodore Stockton in command of all US forces.
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* July 7 – Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
Commodore ( Rear Admiral ) John D. Sloat, commander of the U. S. Navy's Pacific Squadron, dispatched his flagship, the Frigate, and the Sloop to Monterey harbor where they arrived on July 2, 1846.
In 1850 United States Navy Commodore John Drake Sloat led a survey party in quest of a logical site for the nation's first Pacific naval installation.
On July 23, 1846 Commodore Stockton arrived in Monterey, California and took over command from the ailing Commodore John D. Sloat of the Pacific Squadron of U. S. naval forces in the Pacific Ocean.
United States control of the area began in 1846 during the Mexican-American War when Commodore John D. Sloat, commander of the U. S. Navy's Pacific Squadron, landed unopposed a small force in Monterey and claimed the territory and the Presidio for the United States.
On July 14, 1846 he received an American Flag from Commodore John D. Sloat, which he raised over the juzgado of San Jose, the pueblo's administrative building.
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At the outbreak of the war with Mexico, Shubrick requested sea duty and, in Independence, sailed for the California coast to relieve Commodore John D. Sloat in command of American Naval forces there.
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The commander of the Navy's Pacific Squadron, Commodore John D. Sloat, consequently entrusted certain dispatches to Wood to carry back to the United States with him.
Surgeon Wood remained in Mexico City not less than a week and gathered more information which he sent off to Commodore Sloat, apprising him of the situation, via Guadalajara.
Meanwhile, Commodore Sloat took action.
Dr. Wood was commended by Commodore Sloat, Secretary Bankcroft, and Senator Mallory, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Senate of the United States for his successful mission behind enemy lines in Mexico in 1846 and his communication to Commodore Sloat which enabled the US Navy to acquire California at the onset of the War with Mexico.
His only participation in the events surrounding the conquest of California was to help carry word from Commodore John Drake Sloat to John C. Frémont at Sutter's Fort that Monterey had been occupied by American forces, and that may have been partly motivated by the fact that Noriega had been captured during the Bear Flag Revolt and was being held at Sutter's Fort.
On July 7, Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey, declaring to the citizenry that the Mexican-American War had begun.
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Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.
Finally, dropping prices of home computers like the Commodore 64 had caused many to believe that buying a home computer was a better investment because it provided more detailed gameplay and could be used for other purposes such as word processing.
In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).
However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.
In addition, Commodore made the drive's controller board smaller and having a lower chip count than the early 1541s ( which had a large PCB with dozens of TTL chips running the length of the case ).
Commodore soon had a profitable calculator line and was one of the more popular brands in the early 1970s, producing both consumer as well as scientific / programmable calculators.
" Tramiel gave this account in many interviews, but Opel's Commodore didn't debut until 1967, years after the company had been named.
Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.
Commodore had been reorganized the year before into Commodore International, Ltd., moving its financial headquarters to the Bahamas and its operational headquarters to West Chester, Pennsylvania, near to the MOS Technology site.
By the end of this conflict, Commodore had shipped somewhere around 22 million C64s — making the C64 the best selling computer of all time.
But Tramiel had beaten Commodore to the punch.
His design was 95 % completed by June ( which fueled speculation that his engineers had taken technology with them from Commodore ).
While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the computer press had often sought Commodore, one of the industry's leading players, and its colorful management for information, despite the company's notorious reputation.
For a time it was considered the front runner in the bid, and numerous reports ( all false ), surfaced during the 1994 – 1995 time frame that Commodore UK had made the purchase.
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Although this originally had been planned when Commodore first switched from the parallel IEEE-488 interface to a custom serial interface, hardware bugs in the VIC-20's 6522 VIA shift register prevented it from working properly.
The 1571 was noticeably quieter than its predecessor and tended to run cooler as well, even though, like the 1541, it had an internal power supply ( later Commodore drives, like the 1541-II and the 3½ " 1581, came with external power supplies ).
Most home computer DOS ' es were stored on a floppy disk always to be booted at start-up, with the notable exception of Commodore, whose DOS resided on ROM chips in the disk drives themselves ( the computer itself had no DOS, just a form of a BIOS for communicating with peripherals ).
The Commodore was next updated in 1986 as the VL, which had new front and rear styling.
In 1749, Reynolds met Commodore Augustus Keppel, who invited him to join HMS Centurion, of which he had command, on a voyage to the Mediterranean.
A Mexican courier was captured en route to Sonora, Mexico carrying letters to General Jose Castro that reported a Mexican revolt that had retaken California from Commodore Stockton.
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The first county sheriff was legendary gunman Commodore Perry Owens, who had previously served as the sheriff of Apache County.
These were known previously as the Commodore Berlina and Commodore utility.
The previously undesignated base car, was now the Commodore L, opening up the range for a new unbadged sub-level car.
The team at MOS Technology had previously failed to produce two graphics chips named MOS Technology 6562 for the Commodore TOI computer, and MOS Technology 6564 for the Color PET, due to memory speed constraints.
This greatly hyped football title broke with traditional 16-bit era games by presenting an isometric view rather than the more usual top-down view ( Kick Off ), side view ( European Club Soccer ), or bird's-eye view ( Sensible Soccer ), but which had been first pioneered ten years previously in International Soccer on the Commodore 64.
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Supercar teams have previously been involved ; Team Kiwi Racing has run two-car teams in the series in the past as a development ground, while Tasman Motorsport has been running a single car team with Andy Booth driving ( Holden Commodore ) since the 06 / 07 series.
It was apparently designed as a low-cost alternative to Tandy's own TRS-80 Color Computer to compete with entry-level machines that had previously dominated the market, such as the Commodore VIC-20 and Sinclair ZX81.
After previously being abandoned, the Commodore 64 section was revived by Irata, Mister President & Mister Cursor as RSI in August, featuring Psychobilly, Benson, Dense, Termo & Street Tuff.
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As previously noted, the Commodore DOS itself is accessed via the " command channel ," using syntax like that used to access files.
Commodore William Mervine had previously been sent, but he did not land and believed the island to be inaccessible.
Another game featuring the 7up Spot character had been released previously for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, the Game Boy, DOS, the Amiga computer, the Commodore 64, and the Atari ST.
Commodore Sir George Collier had previously dispatched the HMS Vulture into the Bay of Fundy on rumors of privateering activity there, so he ordered the HMS Hope to locate the Vulture so that she could assist.
Daejang is senior to South Korea's three other General and Admiral ranks: Chunjang ( Brigadier General / Rear Admiral Lower Half and formerly Commodore and Commodore Admiral ), Sojang ( Major General / Rear Admiral Upper Half or Rear Admiral previously ) and Jungjang ( Lieutenant General / Vice Admiral ).
Earlier, a text adventure with low-resolution semi-static view graphics for every visited location was released in 1984 by Telarium ( a sub-brand of Spinnaker Software, previously called Trillium until forced by a lawsuit to change the name ) and ported to systems such as the Apple II and Commodore 64.
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