Let me tell some interesting as well as amazing facts which i have come to know recently.
Our journey begins now..
1) In early days intel emerged as a top computer manufacturer in colloboration with microsoft.
The then rival to intel was AMD which stands for advanced micro devices.It gave tough competition to intel
by producing topnotch processors.It offered good graphical performance when compared to its rival intel.
Inturn it also released vast amount of heat which became a bottle neck hence AMD started developing good heatsinks along with boards.
whats so interesting about this nothing na .let me tell u that
An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
2) Seagate is famous for producing harddisks both internal and external
Do u believe that
Seagate started its journey by producing 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 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 aquariums made from old macintosh computers.
15).The servers are in Denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.That was Kazaa, the p2p software.
16).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
