Here are some facts that i’ve collected. Maybe useful:-
- An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
- Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
- 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.
- The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
- equipment corporation.
- Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
- 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.
- Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
- Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.
- The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.
- The most expensive game ever developed was “ShenMue” for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.
- The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.
- South korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
- In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, “Hearsay” was developed in India.
- Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers
- The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.
- The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip. - James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the
name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop. - The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under
AOL. - 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. - 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. - The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-
‘The dirty dozen’. - 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. - 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.
- Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac! - 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.
- A human hair is 4000 microinches.
- When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months. - Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
- David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
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