10 Interesting Facts About Computers

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  1. The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
  2. Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
  3. HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
  4. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.
  5. The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5MB of data.
  6. The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40,000.
  7. Mouse Is the external device to computer and the first ever mouse was made by Doug englebart in 1964. This mouse was made of wood.
  8. Domains are the places where the websites are registered and become legal. The first ever domain name was registered as symbolic.com
  9. IBM 5120 from 1980 was the heaviest desktop computer ever made. It weighed about 105 pounds, not including the 130 pounds external floppy drive.
  10. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004. It was designed for a calculator, and in that time nobody imagined where it would lead.
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