Some 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.

bonus fact :

1. Every month more than one million domain names are being registered.
2. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
3. The layout of QWERTY keyboard is 129 years old.
4. The most expensive game ever developed was “ShenMue” for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million
5. MySpace has 110 million registered users.
6. For every five porn pages, there is only one normal page.
7. In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, “Hearsay” was developed in India.
8. Hdd was first introduced in 1979 by Seagate. Its capacity was only 5 MB
9. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide
10. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
11. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
12. 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.
13. Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
14. South korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
15. It took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users where radio and television took 38 and 13 years respectively.
16. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

bonus again :

* 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.
* Bill Gates dropped out of college (Harvard) before founding Microsoft.
* 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.
* 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.
* The computer mouse, the windowing GUI, laser printing, and the network card were all developed at one company; Xerox in Palo Alto, California.
* 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.
* Static electricity so mild that humans don't even feel it can destroy computer circuitry.
* The popular programming language COBOL was invented by Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy.
* Edsger Dijkstra is credited with the quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."



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