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This is a random list of Computer Facts that I have gathered from around the Internet. Most of them I have verified.

Enjoy:

• The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969. Compuserve is now held by AOL.
• The Amd 1400 chip gets as hot as 370 degrees when running without a heatsink.
• The first hard disk drive for the PC was introduced in 1979 by Seagate. It held an entire 5 MB of data.
• The gap between the head and disk on a hard disk drive is less than 1 micro inch. A human hair is 4000 micro inches thick.
• The inside of the original Macintosh contains 47 signatures, one for each member of Apple’s Macintosh division as of 1982.
• It would take the age of the Universe to break an encrypted message using 128 Bit SSL Encryption.
• Hewlett Packard was started in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto.
• The first computer company to register for a domain name was Digital Equipment Corporation.
• Apple & Sun Systems came very close to a merger in 1996.
• A single game boy unit contains more computing power than was used to put the first man on the moon in 1969.
• Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide since it began in 1982.
• The four largest software developers in the world are Microsoft, Adobe, Sap, and Computer Associates.
• The Sega Dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console gaming machine to contain a 128 Bit architecture.
• The most expensive game ever developed was ShenMue for the Sega Dreamcast. It cost $20 million to develop.
• The QWERTY keyboard layout is over 130 years old.
• Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
• The first microprocessor built by Intel was the 404.
• South Korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
• The first speech recognition software named Hearsay was developed in 1971 in India.
• Macquariums are aquariums made from old macintosh computers.
• Kazaa, the P2P software, has its servers in Denmark, the software was created in Estonia, the domain is registered in Australia and the corporation is in the South Pacific Islands.
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor Internet traffic flow.
• One terabyte of data(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s Empire State Building.
• The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra has 222 million transistors.
• James Gosling created Java at Sun Microsystems in 1994.
• The Palm Operating System fits in less than 100K of drive space, which is less than one percent the amount of drive space that Windows XP takes.
• The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM PC was The Dirty Dozen.
• When the Compact Disc (CD) was invented, it was designed so it could contain Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo, which is 72 minutes.
• 3 million copies of Windows 3.1 were sold within the first two months of its launch.
• David Bradley wrote the code for the dreaded [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.

Ken