Some Important Facts related to Computers

• December 2 is observed as Computer Literacy Day.
• India has announced New Computer Policy in 1984.
• First Computer(made in India) is 'Siddharth',which was manufactured by ECI(Electronics Corporation of India).
• First Computer in India was installed in the Main Post Office of Bangalore on August 16, 1986.
• First Pollution free Computerized Petrol Pump of India is in Mumbai.
• First Computer University(in Private Sector) in India is Rajeev Gandhi Computer University.
• Bangalore(Now Bangaluru) is also known as the Silicon Valley of India.
• First Indian News Paper to be available on Internet is"The Hindu".
• First Indian Magazine to be available on Internet is "India Today".
• First Indian Political Party which has created its website on Internet is BJP in 1995.
• Mainly there are three types of Computer - Analog, Digital and Hybrid.
• First Super Computer of the world is -CRAY K-1-S, developed by Cray K Company of USA.
• "Deep Blue" is a Super Computer which had defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. This Super Computer is able to do the work equivalent to the work of 32 Computers and can think 20 crore steps of chess in 1 second.
• First Electronic Digital Computer of the world is 'ENIAC'.
• Most Popular Operating System in the world is WINDOWS.
• USENET(User's Network) is a link to connect all the Universities.
• First book on Personal Computer was written by Ted Nelson.
• First Magazine on Computer is 'Computer and Automation'.
• First home Computer is Comodor VIC/20 in 1980.
• First Practical Digital Computer is UNIVAC(Universal Automatic Computer) in 1951
• FORTRAN is the first Programming Language.
• PROLOG is the language of the Fifth generation of computer.
• J.S.Kilbi developed the IC chips.
• A computer error is known as Bug.
• C-DAC (Centre of development and Advanced Computing) as established in Pune in 1988.
• Super Computer PARAM (means "supreme" in the Sanskrit language)-10000, having the capacity of 1 billion calculations per second, was made by the scientists of C-DAC of Pune of March 28, 1998. The main credit for the development of the PARAM-10000 goes to Dr. Vijay P. Bhaskar, Executive Director of C-DAC, Pune.
• Laser Printers are the Fastest Printers.
• IBM(International Business Machine) is an American Computer Company.
• Computer Virus is a man made digital parasite, which corrupts(infects) the file and known as 'File corrupter'.
• Y-2K was a technical problem, associated with the calender (Date, Month and year) known as 'Millennium Bug'.
• The Development of Computer Stated in India since 1955.
• On Sept. 17, 1991 Linus Benedict Torvalds completed the first version of Linux. He made the wisest decision in Operating System History by releasing Linux Under General Public License, Thereby making it open and free to all.
• Linus Torvalds is one of the Pioneers who advocated the idea of free software and thereby changed the software market.
• A Computer May be used to control purely mechanical action. It has two main Parts: Hardware and Software.
• The original Windows 1 was released in November 1985 and was Microsoft’s first true attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit. Development was spearheaded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and ran on top of MS-DOS, which relied on command-line input.