Computer Facts

1. The earlier computers, which were massive in size, were based onvacuum tubes.
2. Early computing machines, like the ENIAC, were actually meant to assist thearmed forces.
3. The printers in pre-1950s werepunch cards.
4. An improvement on the ENIAC, which pioneered 'stored program', was made possible with the help of the mathematicianJohn von Neumann.
5. Before the 1950s, computers were mostly owned byuniversities and research labs.
6. The B-programming language was developed byKen Thompson.
7. Famous people, associated with the ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC computers areEckert & Mauchly.
8. The 1st commercially produced and sold computer (1951) wasUNIVAC.
9. IBM was provided software for PCs byMicrosoft.
10. Time-sharing, teletyping, were associated withmainframe computers.
11. The transformation from heavy computers to PCs was made possible usingmicroprocessors.
12. The first microprocessor was developed in 1971 byIntel.
13. The term 'micro' (extremely small) denotes10-6m.
14. The Harvard student, who chose to write computer programs and dropped studies wasBill Gates.
15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly40 milliontransistors.
16. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus wereinitial desktop computers.
17. Binary digits are briefed asbit.
18. A collection of bits is calledbyte.
19. C++, is acomputer language.
20. The process of eliminating programming faults is calleddebugging.
21. Starting up on operating system is calledbooting.
22. A program used to browse the web is calledbrowser.
23. An error in software designing which can even cause a computer to crash is calledbug.
24. Click and double-click are achieved using themouse.
25. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC arecomputer programming languages.
26. The device which sends computer data using a phone line is calledMODEM.
27. 'Worm' and 'virus' are actuallyprograms.
28. A 'file' is a unit ofinformation.
29. A megabyte has106(million) bytes.
30. A small, single-site network is calledLAN.
31. A processor that collects several data and sends them over a single line is calledbridge.
32. 'Nano' stands forone billionth part.
33. The number of bit patterns using an n-bit code is2n.
34. The part of a computer that works with the data/programs is calledCPU.
35. To convert a binary number to a decimal, we have to express it in power of2.
36. www stands forworld wide web.
37. Mathematics employed in computers is calledBoolean algebra.
38. A collection of 8 bits is calledbyte.
39. The first home computer (1977), which was sold in millions of units wasApple II.
40. 'PARAM' is asupercomputer.
41. A website containing periodic posts is calledblog.
42. While cutting and pasting, the cutitem is temporarily stored in theclipboard.
43.httpstands forhyper text transfer protocol.
44. The unwanted or non-requested emails are called"spam".
45. A computer framed to give various network services is calledserver.