Trivia Pot : 2

 Trivia pot : 2

Here’s I am back with some more facts and Trivia….

 

Ø  A study by Dell some time ago claimed that 12,000 laptops go lost, missing or are stolen each week in the US!

 

Ø  Although the iPod started selling in 2001 it wasn’t until 1.5 years later that Apple sold a Windows compatible iPod – the second generation iPod

Ø  The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) was so named because it activated itself on March 6, the birth day of the famous renaissance painter. The virus attacked the boot sector of hard drives and any floppy drive inserted into a computer. Upon activation it destroyed data.

Ø  The DVORAK keyboard is said to be at least 70% more efficient than a QWERTY keyboard.

Ø  Apple too had some flop launches in its time. Their famous Lisa line which preceded Macintosh, didn’t sell very well. In 1989, Apple disposed of approximately 2,700 unsold Lisas in a guarded landfill in Logan, Utah, in order to receive a tax write-off on the unsold inventory.

Ø  The QWERTY keyboard was designed to prevent jams on a keyboard. The early typewriters used arms to impress a letter on paper. If neighbouring keys were used in rapid succession, then the arms were likely to jam, which was a serious issue. The keyboard was designed to prevent commonly used key combinations from being next to each other. It is widely believed that the keyboard was designed to slow down typists, which is not true.

Ø  The name ‘worm’ appeared in the 1970 movie ‘Shockwave Rider’ to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.  Apple based their Lisa (later Macintosh) operating system on work done on graphical user interfaces at PARC which was run by Xerox. It was here that the idea of the desktop and the mouse as we have it today was created.

Ø  ICQ was the first instant messenger program, and that’s notable because it’s still running, although it’s been bought by AOL.

Ø  Sony’s VAIO stands for ‘Video Audio Integrated Operation’

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

 

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

Ø  A typical fiber-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

Ø  In the mid-1980s, engineers at Apple Computer developed a high-speed method of transferring data to and from the hard drives in Macintosh desktops while simplifying the internal cabling. They called it FireWire.