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I didn't know anyone with a DOS system in the early '80s, but I knew plenty of people with Commodore 64s, TI 99-4As, Apple IIs, computers by Tandy, and even Timex--all with distinct and incompatible operating systems.
The humiliating visit of the black ships of Commodore Matthew Perry, demanding trade rights and treaty concessions for the United States, was still two decades away, and the Japanese could retain for a little longer the illusion that their two centuries of peace and feudal harmony would last forever.
It was off the coast here that Commodore Matthew Perry, ordered by the US government to open diplomatic relation with Japan by force if necessary, anchored his fleet of black ships.
“Fxxx the fxxxing torpedoes, full fxxxing speed ahead,” as your bloody commodore once said.
The stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.