Computer Facts
| (1). An old Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees. (Don’t worry, current line of products have safety measures built-in.) |
(2). Seagate introduced the first hard disk drive for PC in 1979. It held 5 megabytes of data(about the size of a MP3 file). |
| (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.
More about HP here. |
i have a 500GB hdd. reminds of me the time when bill gates said “no one will ever need more than 640kb”.