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History Of Augusta, Georgia
Augusta, Georgia was founded in 1736 as part of the British colony of Province of Georgia, Georgia, under the supervision of colony founder James Oglethorpe. It was the colony's second established town, after Savannah, Georgia, Savannah. Today, Augusta is the second-largest city in Georgia (U.S. State), Georgia, and the largest city of the Central Savannah River Area. Colonial Augusta Augusta, Georgia was first used by Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans as a place to cross the Savannah River because of Augusta's location on the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, Fall Line. In 1736, two years after James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Georgia, Savannah, he sent a detachment of troops on a journey up the Savannah River. He gave them an order to build at the head of the navigable part of the river. The job fell into the hands of Noble Jones, who created the settlement to provide a first line of defense (military), defense against the Spain, Spanish and the France, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
View Of Augusta, From Summerville
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, it also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages – these included word processor ''VIEW'' and the spreadsheet ''ViewSheet'' supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. History Acornsoft was formed in late 1980 by Acorn Computers directors Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry, and David Johnson-Davies, author of the first game for a UK personal computer and of the official Acorn Atom manual "Atomic Theory and Practice". David Johnson-Davies was managing director and in early 1981 was joined by Tim Dobson, Programmer and Chris Jordan (designer), Chris Jordan, Publications Editor. While some of their games were clones or remakes of popular arcade games (e.g. ''Hopper'' is a clone of Sega's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
