IBM Personal Computer

                              The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton,...

The birth of the IBM pc

                     Non-IBM personal computers were available as early as the mid-1970s, first as do-it-yourself kits and then as off-the-shelf products. They offered a few applications but none that justified widespread use. Drawing on its pioneering SCAMP (Special Computer, APL Machine Portable) prototype of 1973, IBM's General Systems Division announced the IBM 5100 Portable Computer in...

History of computer technolog

                                     have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, probably initially in the form of a tally stick. The Antikythera mechanism, dating from about the beginning of the first century BC, is generally considered to be the earliest known mechanical analog computer, and the earliest known geared mechanism. Comparable...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

                            Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data,often in the context of a business or other enterprise.The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as...

Children's electronic toy maker Vtech hacked

                               The firm said that there was "unauthorised access" to the database on 14 November. The app is a gateway for customers to download games, e-books and other content on to their Vtech devices. It is not clear how many customers have been affected, A large amount of data, which looked like it could be from the hack, was seen online but has...

Children's electronic toy maker Vtech hacked

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German plasma success raises nuclear fusion hopes

                      The helium plasma - a cloud of loose, charged particles - lasted just a tenth of a second and was about one million degrees Celsius. It was hailed as a breakthrough for the Max Planck Institute's stellarator - a chamber whose design differs from the tokamak fusion devices used elsewhere. The Sun's energy is created by fusion. Physicists are in a worldwide race to create...

Physicists unveiled about neutrinos bombarding the Earth from above, below - and within

                            Physicists have disclosed a pile of new discoveries about neutrinos assaulting the Earth from above, beneath - and inside. A trial inherent an endless piece of Antarctic ice has multiplied its check of "inestimable neutrinos" from space, via hunting down landings going through the planet from the north. The same group this week reported the most...

Tim Peake drives remote robot on Earth from orbit

                            The rover known as Bridget enters the "cave" at the Airbus simulation "Mars yard" UK astronaut Tim Peake has performed a challenging remote control experiment on the International Space Station.He had to command a robot rover on Earth, driving it across a big sandpit in Stevenage, near London, that simulated the surface of Mars.The Briton experienced...

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879)

                                   . James was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1831.From his early childhood, he displayed a natural inquisitiveness, always asking how things worked and moved as they did. When he was eight, his mother died, and his father John took responsibility for his upbringing along with his sister-in-law Jane. In 1841, he went to the...