Computer Facts 7

Rare Facts That You Never Heard Before

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

• If you happened to open up the case of the original Macintosh, you would find 47 signatures, one for each member of Apple's Macintosh division as of 1982.

• A fat Mac application is an application program for the Macintosh computer that works on a Mac running on a Motorola 68000 series chip.

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

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

• Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin designed the Pentium Chip that was launched on March 22, 1993.

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

• Stinger was the codename Microsoft used for its smartphone platform that was unveiled in 2001, now called Windows Mobile.

• Infosys was the first Indian company to release its annual report in CD-ROM format.
• IBM was incorporated in 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.

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

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