Even if it was dated to 2000 years ago it still is a forgery.
The two separate images - front and back - are like photographs in that they have been 'taken' from a distance away from any 'body'. If the cloth had been in contact with the face then the nose and ears would look completely differently. The two images are then joined at the head with no room left for the top of the head.
We do not know how the two images were produced, but it certainly was not by any mechanism that believers claim. The most likely is by using some sort of light sensitive chemical in a camera obscura with a body outside in the sun creating the image via a 'pin hole' or a lens.

> BASIC was the most popular programming language

BASIC was only ever 'a' programming language back in the early 60s. After that it bacame a collection of vaugely similiar but incompatible languages.

>Old Man IBM said their was a need for about 5 mainframes in the WORLD in the early 50's.

Given the cost of the earliest machines that was about the right level of sales they could achieve. It was only when the price went down and the cost of running them decreased that the market for greater numbers opened up.

I still have an IBM 5150 PC here, a model B.

The 5150 was not IBM's first PC, there were earlier models in the 5100 series, even onre that was a luggable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in 1975. The 5110 and 5120 followed.

IBM were concerned that there were many Apple IIs with Z80 cards appearing in their mainframe sites so the IBM 5150 was designed to be just a bit more than an Apple II: 180Kb disks instead of 160Kb. 128Kb instead of 64Kb (on the Z80 card) and CP/M like PC-DOS.

Their first design was based on their System 23 planar (motherboard) using a Z80 but Intel convinced them to use the 8088. The model A used the same spacing of plug-in boards as the System 23. The model B had a revised planar with closer spacing.

Not only did this mimic the Apple II with Z80 but IBM made models that emulated a 360 and ones that could also be used as a 3270. Translated CP/M software was available such as PeachTree, Visicalc, dBase II, BASIC, Wordstar, etc.

>IBM never meant "Other manufacturers will be able to create clones".

IBM would licence the use of the IBM BIOS and PC-DOS to (almost) anyone who wanted to make clones. It just cost too much. The later alternate BIOSes were cheaper.

>the PC was originally conceived that it would run CP/M,

CP/M-86 was available for IBM-PC but it was $250 vs $70 for IBM PC-DOS.

>with the only modifications likely being those needed to support the extra memory.

PC-DOS 1.x only supported 8080 mode programs as .COM. These were single segment programs that were simple load-and-go with a limit of 64Kb. these were an easy conversion from CP/M using the Intel 8080 to 8086 assembler translator. Multi-segment .EXEs came with PC-DOS 2.x and these could use additional memory.

>The amount of software available for CP/M was huge.

Much of which was easily translated to MS-DOS. The IBM-PC was launched with Wordstar, Visicalc, dBase II, PeachTree, and various languages available on day 1.

>You could buy off-brand boards

And one of those was the Microsoft Z80 board that ran CP/M on the Apple II before there was the IBM-PC or MS-DOS.

> this is literally impossible to enforce legally.

This is just a petulant child trying to get revenge on Tik Tok users for ruining his Tulsa rally.

> using Tik Tok to organize politically

Exactly. This is the petulant child Trump getting revenge for Tik Tok users ruining his Tulsa rally by taking up thousands of tickets and intending to not turn up. People intending to go were dissuaded from doing so because they thought it would be far too crowded. Trump even laid on an alternate venue which remained unused.

> Republicans have only cared about the national debt when there was a Democrat in the Whitehouse.

Trump pretended to care about the national debt during the campaign and he may have gained votes for doing so from people who cared about this.

"""President Trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years. Instead, he plans to add $8.3 trillion."""

> Wouldn't boomer's be Cobal programmers?

Sure. For 30 years COBOL was 90% of my programming. For the last 20 years it has been 90% Python.

Trump will shut down the USPS to eliminate mail-in voting.

> translate businessman acumen to running a country.

'Business acumen' is knowing when to sell the business before it crashes, or go bankrupt to dump the creditors.

But Trump isn't running the country as _a_ business, he is running it as _his_ business, one that he making a lot of money from. We know of some of the grift, such as his campaign paying 400,000 to Mar-a-largo and taxpayer millions going to his golf clubs when he goes golfing. This is the tip of the iceberg, he is likely taking in hundreds of millions under the counter.

> delete a tab/spaces

Get better tools or at least learn to configure them to _never_ put a tab character into source code and always replace the tab key with appropriate spaces.

> (no private variables)

Actually you can have private variables and methods, just use prefix '__'.

No one cares that you don't want to use it.