FACTS ON APPLE

On 1 April 2006 Apple celebrated the30th anniversary of the company. It was 30 years ago that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak filed partnership papers, along with one Ron Wayne - who sold his 10% stake in the company for $800 only a couple of months later. To celebrate what by any account has been one of the great computing stories of our time, here are 30 facts about Apple derived from 1976 to 2006 (thanks mainly to the Wikipedia’s excellent inter-linking system):

30. The "forgotten founder" Apple Ron Wayne illustrated the first Apple logo and wrote the Apple I manual. He also wrote their partnership agreement.

29. Apple wasn’t started in a garage, it was started in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos.

28. Jobs and Woz previously worked together as summer employees at HP in Palo Alto.

27. All 3 founders worked at Atari before forming Apple.

26. In 1977, VC Mike Markkula spent USD$250,000 to buy one-third of Apple Computer. He was also CEO from 1981-83.

25. The first newsletter from March 15, 1975 of the famous Homebrew Computer Club (of which Jobs and Woz belonged) asked: "What will people do with a computer in their home?" Answers ranged from "private secretary functions: text editing, mass storage, memory, etc., to control of house utilities: heating, alarms, sprinkler system, auto tune-up, cooking, etc., to GAMES: all kinds."

24. The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977 with a 1 MHz microprocessor and 4 KB of RAM (expandable to 48 KB).

23. Apple DOS 3.1, which was the first disk-based operating system for any Apple computer, was released in June 1978 for the Apple II.

22. Steven Weyhrich: "On the old Apple DOS 3.2 disks was a cool Integer BASIC program called "APPLE-VISION". In hi-res graphics, it drew a room with a TV, and after the picture was complete, the man on the screen danced to the song "Turkey In The Straw". It was amazing to see what that 4K Apple II was capable of doing!"

21. 1980’s Apple III was the first completely new computer designed by Apple Computer, Inc. It was a commercial failure though and the Apple II was the one that paved the way in the 80’s.

20. 1983’s Apple IIe was the longest-lived Apple computer of all time, having a run of nearly eleven years.

19. The Apple Lisa was first introduced in January 1983 (announced on January 19) at a cost of $9,995 US ($19,000 in 2005 dollars). It was the first commercial personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI), however it was a commercial failure.

18. Named after the McIntosh apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface.

17. The first 50,000 Apple IIGS computers in 1986 came with Steve Wozniak’s "Woz" signature silkscreened on the front and were referred to as the "Woz Limited Edition."

16. Apple computers were cloned in the past and many of the clones had fruit names (e.g. "Pineapple") - geddit? :-)

15. Apple’s Macintosh product line took over from the Apple II line in the early ’90s.

14. Apple announced the iMac on May 7, 1998, and started shipping the iMac on August 15 of that year.  

13. The iPod was unveiled by CEO Steve Jobs on October 23, 2001 as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put “1,000 songs in your pocket.”

12. It wasn’t until July 17 2002 that Apple began selling a Windows-compatible iPod.

11. iTunes was developed from SoundJam MP, a popular commercial MP3 application distributed by the Macintosh software company Casady & Greene.

10. The iTunes Music Store was introduced to the world on April 28, 2003 - selling songs for 99c and becoming a major reason for the iPod’s success.

9. In October 2003, Apple released their first TV commercial of the silhouette campaign, which had already been featured for some time in print.

8. On January 6, 2004, Apple introduced the first iPod mini. It had 4 GB of storage and featured for the first time the "click wheel".

7. Apple announced iPod shuffle at Macworld Expo on January 11, 2005 with the taglines "Life is random" and "Give chance a chance". It had flash memory rather than a hard drive.

6. On September 7, 2005, Apple announced the successor to the iPod mini, the iPod nano.

5. iPod Car integration allows one to connect an iPod to a car - in 2006 it’ll be available in a range of cars such as Lexus, Nissan, Mazda, Daihatsu, BMW, MINI, smart, and Alfa Romeo.

4. The iPod has sold 41 million overall and in the 2006 Q1 it sold 14 M - double the previous quarter!

3. On January 24 2006, Steve Jobs and Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion - which when confirmed will make Jobs The Walt Disney Company’s largest single shareholder with 7% stock.

2. At Apple’s "Fun Products" Day on February 28, 2006, Steve Jobs announced the iPod Hi-Fi - an amplified loudspeaker system that docks with the iPod.

1. On 1 April 2006 Apple turned 30.

WORLD COSTLIEST LAPTOPS

Laptop Computer is becoming one of the everybody’s need nowadays. The reason is because they can be brought everywhere instead of the conventional PC that so heavy. People are trying to make better and better laptop that also become more and more expensive. Some of the laptop company produce  most expensive laptop in the world. Those most expensive laptop in the world is not just expensive because of the technology used, but also the material that used on the laptop creations. Let’s take a look at the top 10 world’s most expensive laptop, if you don’t agree with the list feel free to make some comment below the article.

10. Acer Ferrari 1100: $3000

I guess you all know about Ferrari. Yes, they’re indeed is a car producer that becoming popular for their car’s speed. If You think this laptop is like Ferrari, it’s true. They can be called Ferrari of the laptop. It’s for 2 reasons. They have the Ferrari logo (of course the license of using that logo) on their laptop and they also have the speed that the laptop users are needed.

9. Dell M6400: $3000

You don’t have to be doubt with this laptop performance. Powerful is the title of this notebook. The laptop is featured with Intel Quad Core Extreme Edition processors that can be used for ripping complex analysis with large 16GB of fast 1066MHz DDR3 memory for heavy processing and have 1GB of graphics memory. Dell is trying to build their brand again as the market leader of expensive and powerful notebook by issuing this laptop.

8. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660: $3500

The special thing about this laptop is that this laptop can handle HD DVD. It powered with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 240 GB RAID 0 HDD and Nvidia GeForce Go 7600. It was the only laptop computer that has a HD DVD player. It also completed with 17 inch screen with 1920 × 1200 resolution. For the price offered this laptop are completed with the good elegant design to balance with the performance of HD DVD.

7. Lenovo ThinkPad W700DS: $4500

This laptop is different from other 17″ laptop for one reason, It has a drawn monitor that can be very useful for CAD and Excel works. The additional display is very useful for Excel and CAD programs for graphs and numbers. It also can displays very well on usual function, especially on Skype or instant messenger. This laptop is equipped by 2.53 GHz Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9000, 4GB RAM, dual 250GB 5200RPM hard hardrives. prices reached $ 4,500.

6. Alienware Area 51: $5,000

For the game lovers, this is the most complex laptop specifically designed for gaming. This sylish and sleek designed laptop is equipped with Intel Core 2 Extreme packs in technology with 1 GB NVIDIA ® GeForce ® 9800M GT in a dual CPU SLI ® configuration.

This laptop has 1TB storage in a high speed RAID 0 configuration, and other storage options are equipped with a smart bay.The laptop system can record HD TV and film with its built in TV Tuner card. This is a very reasonable price for $ 5000.

5. Rock Extreme SL8: $5,000

When this laptop is launched, It’s claimed to be the world’s fastest laptop with specs Intel Core 2 Quad Processor, NVIDIA 9800M GPUs in SLI and staggering 8GB of RAM. Equipped with a blue ray that can display high definition Video. IF you’re the owner of this laptop, you should be proud of this. I guess the price of $ 5,000 is good compare to the features the laptop own.

4. Voodoo Envy H:171: $8,500

If you need high performance laptop with stylist design maybe this laptop is the best choice. The specification of this laptop have optimized for speed and stable performance. It’s featured with Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, a chunky 4GB of RAM, twin Nvidia Quadro FX Go 2500M graphics chipset, 1.3MP webcam, dual 250GB hard disks, 7-in-1 memory card reader, dual layer DVDRW drive and a high resolution 17-inch 1920×1200 display.

The special feature that maybe make this laptop become that expensive is the chassis that can be replaced with 25 colors and the user is also can choose one of 14 tattoos available from the producer.Maybe you can consider to buy this laptop if you have $ 8,500.

3. Ego for Bentley: $20,000

From the picture below I guess you will be agreed if it’s a women’s laptop. It’s very stylish and luxurious with entley logo. This laptop is build to match with the bentley car color. This laptop is purchased by a rich woman with a worth of $ 20,000 just for their appearance only, usually only if They own the Bentley car as well. Specification of the laptop is only 64 bit vista with 160 GB HDD.

2. Tulip E-Go Diamond: $355,000

This laptop have an image as “most Luxurious laptop in the world” and I guess we can deny that because this laptop is designed with a touch of chrome and a unique shape like women bag. The holder of the bag can be replaced with white gold and diamonds. For that reason the price reach $355,000. The hardware specifications are not far above the average laptop. 12 inch antiglare screen display (anti-reflection), 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, integrated webcam, Bluetooth 2.0, and DVD burner.

1. Luvaglio One Million Dollar Laptop: $1,000,000

As the title said, this laptop is a million dollar in price. This laptop is designed for only one in the world and can be ordered with the customer choice whether it is made from wood, metal or iron. This laptop is designed to allow for component upgrading. This laptop is equipped with 128 GB solid state drive, mp3 player, a built-in USB stick and “integrated screen cleaning feature”. I guess you will think twice to spend a million dollar for just this laptop.

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Facts on LAPTOPS

• Laptops are one of the technological advances of our time. They are convenient and can be used almost anywhere. Users of laptops are either “occasional” or “fulltime”. With the advent of the computer is has definitely become an email and knowledge based society. Everyone loves their computers. So laptops are just an extension of that. The fact is that laptops actually use 90% less energy than desktops. So not only are they fun, interesting and smaller but they are saving the environment too.
• Many tired people use their laptops as a pillow and fall asleep on it!
• A laptop is tied to its battery as far as performance.
• Did you know more than 12,000 laptops go missing at US airports a week!
• You can actually design your own laptop.
• Laptops are outselling desktops!
• There is no need to get frustrated by your laptop dying on you. Now the company Earthtech has come out with a solar charger. It comes with a 25 watt Sunling Foldable Solar Panel and a 300 watt power inverter and battery.
• Now on the market are all purpose laptops. One of which is the Acer Aspire. Do they clean the house too?
• Travellers should choose the “ultra portable.”
• Laptops can weigh as little as 6 pounds!

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About 2012

End of the World - December 21, 2012. Seven Reasons:

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:

• Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins. 
• Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

 

2. Sun Storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano

Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches. 

The Maya Calendar was the center of Maya life and their greatest cultural achievement. The Maya Calendar's ancestral knowledge guided the Maya's existence from the moment of their birth and there was little that escaped its influence. The Maya Calendar made by the Maya World Studies Center in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico follows a centuries old tradition.

This Maya Calendar website is developing with the intent of providing a complete view of Maya culture; being that the Maya world was centered on the calendar, this name is more than appropriate for the Maya World Studies Center website.

Click on the photo above or on the text link below to enter and enjoy, make sure you bookmark this site. Remember to return soon for new information is constantly added.

The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Mayan history starts in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., Mayan history rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize.

Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilizations such as the Olmec, the Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools. Mayan history shows that they were also skilled farmers, clearing large sections of tropical rain forest and, where groundwater was scarce, building sizeable underground reservoirs for the storage of rainwater. The Maya were equally skilled as weavers and potters, and cleared routes through jungles and swamps to foster extensive trade networks with distant peoples. Many people believe that the ancestors of the Maya crossed the Bering Strait at least 20,000 years ago. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Evidence of settled habitation in Mexico is found in the Archaic period 5000-1500 BC - corn cultivation, basic pottery and stone tools.

The first true civilization was established with the rise of the Olmecs in the Pre-Classic period 1500 BC -300 AD. The Olmecs settled on the Gulf Coast, and little is known about them.

 

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Bill Gates Interesting Facts

These are some facts about Bill Gates have been sent to me by one of my friends. I don't know about the source of this information but now a days Windows users are sending this interesting information to each other through emails so there must be some truth in it.

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up because during the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion dollars, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself, he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$ 5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.

And the last one...

9. If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years.

Company Names Orgin

Apple Computers

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel

The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.


Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony

It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos

100 Interesting Facts About Computer

1. An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.


2. Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.



3. If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures

one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.



4. The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital

equipment corporation.



5. Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.



6. The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all

the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.



7. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.



8. Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.



9. The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.



10. The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.



11. The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.



12. South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.



13. In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.



14. Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.

15. The servers r in denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.Ths Kazaa the p2p software.



16. Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.



17. The four largest software makers in the world are:-



(a) Microsoft

(b) Adobe

(c) Sap

(d) Computer Associates.



18. Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-



Arranged according to the speed:-



1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).



2. Columbia (NASA).



3. Earth Simulator (NEC).



4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).



5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).



6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).



7. System X(Virgina Tech).



8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).



9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster(Naval Oceanographic Office).



10. Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications).





19. According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are

produced & stored magnetically per year.





20. Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of

about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths

of an inch apart.





21. One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of

documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire

state building.

22. The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.



23. The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the

record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.

24. James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the

name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.



25. The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under

AOL.



26. The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the size

of Windows 98 or Mac O.S.



27. What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles of

single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to

support this information is about 50 gigabytes.



28. The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-

'The dirty dozen'.



29. When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long

enough to hold beethoven's Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was

precisely 72 minutes.



30. 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.



31. Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.



32. Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!



33. Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-

A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.

A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.

A particle of smog is 100 microinches.

34. A human hair is 4000 microinches.



35. When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two

months.

36. Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.



37. David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.

38. Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, is sometimes quoted as asserting that the world would probably never need more than 5 computers. He was referring, of course, to main frame computers, which his company built.



39. Bill Gates dropped out of college (Harvard) before founding Microsoft.



40. Early hard drives in Personal Computers held 20 MB, or 20 Megabytes, and cost about $800. By comparison, an $8 flash drive holds 2 GB, or 2 Gigabytes. That's a 100-fold decrease in price and a 100-fold increase in capacity.



41. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers from parts they got for free from their employers. They originally approached their employers with their idea for a 'personal computer', but they were rebuffed. They were actually encouraged to scrounge spare parts from work and complete their project in their spare time.



42. The computer mouse, the windowing GUI, laser printing, and the network card were all developed at one company; Xerox in Palo Alto, California.



43. The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.





44. Static electricity so mild that humans don't even feel it can destroy computer circuitry.



45. The popular programming language COBOL was invented by Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy.



46. Edsger Dijkstra is credited with the quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

47. You should leave your personal computer on all the time. There's nothing wrong with turning off your machine periodically-it's actually beneficial.



48. Deleting your files erases them forever. You should never consider your computer completely "clean" after dropping your files in the trash can.



49. Magnets murder your data. An extremely powerful magnet can erase a hard drive, but not your garden-variety refrigerator magnets.



50. An antivirus program isn't necessary if I use a firewall. A firewall simply prevents unauthorized users from entering your system remotely. They don't know anything about viruses.



51. Restarting is bad for a computer. Hitting "restart" doesn't harm your computer at all, and in some cases it may actually do it some good.



52. Updating your computer's software makes it faster. It can make your computer run more slowly if its running requirements are high enough.



53. Freeware is safe to download. Many free programs finance themselves by bundling adware in with their programs. When you download the free software, the adware installs itself as well.

54. Computer technology has changed quickly in just a few decades-and what was true then isn't necessarily true now. Today's computers are more powerful, safer, and more stable-and many of these beliefs don't stand up to further examination.

55. The Apple Lisa (1983) was the first successful computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. It cost $10,000.

56. The GRiD 1101 is the grand-daddy of all modern-day laptops. It cost over $8000 in 1982.

57. Their new VIC-20 (1980) was so embarrassing to parent company Commodore, that they considered giving them away. Instead, it sold over 1,000,000 units within just a few years, making Commodore hundreds of millions of dollars.

58. The first portable Macintosh computer, the Macintosh Portable (1989) weighs 16 pounds and had a 16MHz processor.

59. The first-ever handheld/palmtop MS-DOS "PC" was the Portfolio, sold by --- Atari, in 1989.

60. The first "IBM" computer to run on batteries was the IBM Convertible PC from 1986.

61. The Timex Sinclair 1000 was the most successful computer ever, that cost less than $100, that is.

62. The Commodore 64 (1982) retains the record as the most successful single computer model ever, selling over 10 million units.

63. The portable version of the Commodore 64 is the SX-64 (1984). It weighs 23 pounds, and has a built-in 5-inch color CRT screen.

64. The Coleco Adam (1983) will not run without the printer attached and plugged-in. The computer's power supply is in the printer.

65. The Jupiter Ace (1983) was advertised as "Probably the fastest microcomputer in the universe!".

66. Apple Computers sued the maker of the Franklin ACE 100 (1982) for copyright infringement. The Franklin company copied the Apple II operating system, changed a few words, and sold it as their own.

67. In 1981, prior to the famous PC, IBM sold a desktop computer called the Datamaster.

68. The Osborne 1 (1981) is considered to be the first practical and useful "portable" computer. It weighs 25 pounds.

69. The first great flop for "Apple Computers" was the Apple III in 1981.

70. The Radio Shack Pocket Computer from 1980 was the first programmable computer to fit in a shirt pocket.

71. Possibly the heaviest desktop computer ever may have been the IBM 5120 from 1980 - it weighed 105 pounds, not including the 130 pound external floppy drive.

72. The custom CPU (central processor) of the HP-85 from 1980 runs at 0.6MHz.

73. When fully expanded, the "Texas Instruments" TI-99/4 from 1979 can be over 3 feet wide.

74. In 1979, Apple licensed the Apple II to Bell & Howell to sell to public schools. The beige case was painted black.

75. NorthStar, which built and sold computer in the late 1970's, was originally called "Kentucky Fried Computers".

76. The Commodore PET-2001 (1977) has the worst keyboards of any full-size computer.

77. The portable desk-top sized IBM 5100 from 1975 could cost up to $20,000, depending on options included.

78. The Zenith MiniSport (1989) was the only computer to ever use a 2-inch floppy drive.

79. The Apple Macintosh and Commodore Amiga 1000 have the developer's signatures cast into the inside of their case.

80. Modern Microprocessors contain as many as 10 million transisters.

81. At the beggining of 1995 there were 24 million users on the Internet, of those 17 million were based in America. The Internet has doubled in size each year since it was invented in 1988.

82. The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.

83. IBM employs 220 000 people.

84. Microsoft employs 16 140 people.

85. Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.

86. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

87. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

88. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

89. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

90. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator MySpace reports Over 110 million registered users, Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

91. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

92. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

93. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

94. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

95. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

96. The most expensive game ever developed was “ShenMue” for sega dream cast. It costs $20 million

97. 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced and stored per year.

98. “The Dirty Dozen” is the name of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC.

99. It could take more than the age of universe to crack a 128 bit SSL encrypted message.

100. IP addresses automatically supply the feds with the physical address.