The Almanac of Absurdities for August 12, 2010.

Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond died of a heart atack on this day in 1964. He’d had his first about a year earlier right after he lost exclusive rights to Thunderball in a lawsuit. On this date in 1898, the Sovereign nation of Hawaii lowered its flag and accepted its fate as a territory of the United States of America. IBM's first personal computer, Model 5150 went on sale at just over 3 Thousand dollars with an 8088 chip and 64k of Ram on this date in 1981.