25 secrets of the IT industry: the first 1 GB hard drive costs $40 thousand

[CCID news] on August 1, February 9, according to foreign media reports, the famous IT columnist John Dvorak recently identified 25 little-known secrets in the IT market, including: windows is formerly known as "interface manager", while Dell is also known as "PCS Limited ".

 

 

 

 

The following are the secrets of the 25 most well-known it markets ":

 

 

 

 

1. The world's first PC named "Simon" was born in 1950 and sold for $300.

 

 

 

 

2. Seagate was formerly known as "shugart technology company ".

 

 

 

 

3. The original computer clock does not display the time accurately.

 

 

 

 

4. Windows is formerly known as "interface manager ".

 

 

 

 

5. IBM (International Business Machine Company, International Business Machine) is an exaggerated naming method inspired by NCR (National Cash cashier company, National Cash Register)

 

 

 

 

6. The diameter of the floppy disk was 1970s in 8 inch.

 

 

 

 

7. In 1980 Commodore launched a VIC-20 computer, priced at $299, Ram only 5 K.

 

 

 

 

8. The world's first 1 GB hard drive was born in 1980, weighing 550 lbs and selling for $40 thousand.

 

 

 

 

9. Many people regard Burroughs B-5000 (circa 1955) as the greatest computer in the world.

 

 

 

 

10. "ip" represents both "Internet Protocol" and "intellectual property". Therefore, when "ip" is linked to an enterprise, it is easy to produce ambiguity.

 

 

 

 

11. Sun's original stock code was sunw, and then changed to Java

 

 

 

 

12. The original name of SanDisk is "sundis ".

 

 

 

 

13. Apple is the one that makes laser printing popular.

 

 

 

 

14. Photoshop was once named "display" and "imagepro". It was not developed by Adobe, but by Thomas Knoll, a college student. In 1988, Adobe was authorized.

 

 

 

 

15. inkjet printer ink is worth $5000 per gallon.

 

 

 

 

16. Today's GPS car navigation system was first born in 1985, named etak navigator, composed of a computer and a space speculation program.

 

 

 

 

17. Intel's first processor is 4004, designed specifically for calculators.

 

 

 

 

18. SCO was originally named Santa Cruz operation.

 

 

 

 

19. The computer also needs to be rested and shut down at night.

 

 

 

 

20. Peter Norton, the originator of the Norton Anti-virus program, once said that there is no more hateful prank than computer viruses.

 

 

 

 

21. The modem is called a "modem" and is not accurate. It should be called a "network adapter ".

 

 

 

 

22. Dell was formerly known as "PCS Limited ".

 

 

 

 

23. Apple's first computer was Apple 1, which was just a loose combination of parts. Apple II was the final product.

 

 

 

 

24. Lenovo stands for "Innovative Lenovo", "Le" stands for "Lenovo" (LEGEND), and Novo stands for "Innovation ".

 

 

 

 

25. In 1950s, computers were called electronic brains ).

From: http://tech.qq.com/a/20090209/000063.htm