According to University of California 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year.
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.
One terabyte (1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empireState Building.40.
The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.
The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.
James Gosling created java at sun microsystems. He came up with the name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.
The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under AOL.
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.
What does 50 GB 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.
The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :- 'The dirty dozen'.
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.
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.
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