Important Facts Related To Computer

Important Facts Related To Computer

• 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 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 Bengaluru) 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 ‘Indian Today’.
• First Indian political party which has created its website on internet is ‘Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’.
• Mainly there are three types of Computers – Digital, Analog and Hybrid.
• First Super Computer of the world is CRAY K-1-S, developed by Cray K Company of U.S.A.
• ‘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: - in PC – windows – in smart phones – Android – in Tablets – iOS
• Android is used in highest number of devices across the world.
• Most Super Computer use – Linux.
• USENET is a link to connect all the universities.
• First book on Personal Computer was written by Ted Nelson.
• The book of Ted Nelson ‘Soul of New Machine’, won Pulitzer Prize.
• First magazine on Computer is ‘Computer and Automation’.
• First home Computer is Comodor VIC/20.
• First Practical Digital Computer is UNIVAC.
• FORTRAN is the first Programming Language.
• PROLOG is the language of the fifth generation of Computer.
• J. S. Kibi developed the IC chips.
• A Computer error is known as Bug.
• C-DAC (Centre for Development and Advanced Computing) was established in Pune in 1988.

• Super Computer PARAM – 10000, having the capacity of 1 billion calculations per second, was made by the scientist of C-DAC of Pune on 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.
• National Aeronautics Laboratories, Bangalore was the first in India to develop a Super Computer named FLO SOLVER.
• 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 currupter’.
• Modem is a device which connects the Computers and works based on telephone lines.
• Y-2 K was a technical problem, associated with the calendar (Date, Month and Year) known as ‘Millenium Bug’.
• The development of Computer started in India since 1955.
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has developed ‘Simputer’, which is a small palm sized touch screen Computer.
• First Computerarium in India is in Bengaluru (Karnataka) .
• Velland of Thiruvananthpuram district in Kerala has been declared the first fully Computerized village of India.
• PC, Home Computer, Electronic notebook etc, are the examples of micro Computer.
• Some Operating Systems, used in micro Computers are – CP /M, Mac OS(Apple), DOC, Pro DOS, MS DOS/ PC DOS, XENIX, WINDOWS, LINUX etc.
• Linus Benedict Torvalds, creator and coordinator of the Unix like Operating System. Linus was born in Helsinki, Finland on December 28, 1969.
• On Sept. 17, 1991 Linus 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.
• He is one of the pioneers who advocated the idea of free software and thereby changed the software market.