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.
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