News to Be Remembered!!!

The first 1 GB hard drive was sold in 1950s, weighed 250 kg and cost about $40,000. Imagine carrying that bad boy in your back pack!

A typical fibre-optic cable five thousandths of an inch thick can carry up to 2.5 billion bits of data per second, or 32,000 simultaneous telephone calls.

Infosys was the first Indian company to release its annual report in CD-ROM format.

In computer slang, an ordinary, postal mail is called snail mail.

When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the fi rst two months.

Windows 95 can officially run on a 386DX at 20MHz with just 4MB of RAM.

The first digital camera was designed by a Kodak engineer by the name of Steven Sasson. It weight 3.6 kg and was the size of a toaster.

The Japanese version of MS Office has a character you can’t find in any other version. The ‘Office Lady’ is a virtual assistant that bows and serves tea.

The Windows 95/98 logos were created with Freehand on a Macintosh

The term ‘petabit’ is used in discussing possible volumes of data traffic per second in a large network.

Intel’s Flying Pentium Ads and the ‘Intel Inside’ logo were made on an Apple Macintosh.

The computing for the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was done by the Intel 4004 microprocessor.

RDF (Resource Definition Framework) is a set of rules for creating descriptions of information available on the World Wide Web.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for client- server communication that sends and receives information ‘on top of’ HTTP.

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is a technology that enables a computer motherboard to switch itself on (and off) based on signals arriving at the computer’s network card.

A ‘blue-bomb’ is a technique for causing the Windows operating system of someone you are communicating with

to crash.

David Bradley wrote the code for the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] key sequence.

The name Epson for the popular brand of printers was coined when the subsequent models of their first printer Electronic Printer 101 were called ‘Sons if electronic Printers’.

A CD-RW disk can, in general, be-written about a thousand times. In contrast, a hard disk can be written over virtually an unlimited number of times.

When desktop scanners were first introduced, many manufacturers used florescent bulbs as light sources.

CD-ROM XA (Compact Disk-read-only memory, extended architecture) is a modification of CD-ROM that

defines two new types of sectors that enable it to read and display data, graphics, video, and audio at the same time.

In 1938, Claude Shannon first showed that electronic switching circuits could perform logical operations.

The CVAX is a chip used as a DEC Micro VAX II microprocessor. A message was inscribed on the chip, in Russian, which said, “VAX, when you care enough to steal the very best”!

A modern quarter inch square silicon chip has the power of the 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.

Andrew Grove, former Chairman, Intel Corporation, was flooded with over 120 names to choose from for its latest processor. He finally settled on ‘Pentium’.

Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin designed the Pentium Chip that was launched on March 22,

1993.

Intel’s code name for its effort to make the one GHz microprocessor was codenamed Project Foster.

Intel’s project on the first processor to use the new 64-bit architecture was under the code name Merced.