interesting computer facts
here are 50 very interesting facts of computer which will amaze you.please read all them carefully and enjoy!
(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. A human hair is 4000 microinches.
34)When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
35)Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
36)David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
37. At 250 tons and 60,000 vacuum tubes, the SAGE system was the largest, heaviest and most expensive computer system ever built! The SAGE required over 20,000 square feet (1950's).
38. IBM got its nickname "Big Blue" not from the color of the computers but from the dark blue suits that its early sales force wore. IBM had one of the greatest sales forces in the country, even before IBM started making and selling digital computers.
39. Internet has spawned several new words. Did you know that a netizen is a citizen of the Internet? You do now. A netiquette is etiquette for the Internet.
40. Search Utility-(also called search tool)-This is the page you see when you visit a search website.
41. Google is a version of the word Googol, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes, representing the large number of web pages Google searches.
43. Anyone who uses a computer is probably familiar with Wikipedia, but did you know that this word is formed from the Hawaiian word, wiki (meaning "quick") and the word encyclopedia? Now you do.
44. e-Bay was started in 1995; more than 1 billion dollars worth of merchandise are sold each month by its users.
45. A plug-in is a small piece of software that adds features to a larger piece of software. Plug-ins are often used by Internet browsers to increase the program's functions.
46. MP3 stands for MPEG-Layer III; it's a film compression method that shrinks the size of data sent over the Internet or used on a computer. That's why you can load hours and hours of music on those MP3 players.
47. Did you no typewriter is the only 10 letter word you can spell with the top row of keys on a keyboard.
48. the sentense "the quick brown fox jumps over a little lazy dog" contains all the alphabats of english language.
49. It was discovered that nobody can create a FOLDEr anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened! TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER
50. type the following in MS word: =rand (200, 99) and let's see what happens! This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened! It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out.
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