Archive for computers
Amazon Launched Kindle Application For Blackberry
Amazon took another step ahead to continue its struggle to expand its e-book business beyond Amazon’s own hardware. Amazon introduced a Kindle application for seven Blackberry phones on last Thursday.
Amazon started functioning as an online book seller then it expanded its services and offered electronics and several other retail categories became the part of Amazon. Amazon introduced its own kindle application that is a kindle reader device, this step is taken to expand its e-book business. With this great application, readers now can read e-books on iPhones and Windows computers. Customer can read e-book on any device after buying rights to read a book.
Flashback: 80 MB Hard disk for $12K was Cheap!
The other day, I was clearing the attic and found some really old computer magazines. May be they are my uncle’s. During next few day’s I would be sharing some interesting pieces from those no so long ago IT and computer industry. The buzz words are similar. the Advert says.
Now you can get our disk systems within 30 days ARO at industry’s lowest prices:
- 80 Mbytes for under $12,000*
- 300 Mbytes for under $20,000*
Field-Proven reliability, total software support and 30-day delivery. You’ve come to expect them all from us. And that’s why we’ve become world’s largest independent supplier of minicomputer disk storage systems.
Now add low price, Lower than minicomputer manufacturer, lower than any other independent – the lowest in the industry. Why? Because we buy more disk drives than anyone else and we can afford to pass the OEM discounts on to you.
What If The Escape Key Really Escaped?
I was wondering a lot about the escape key on the keyboard. Then I saw this really nice little image of an escape key escaping from the keyboard. I could not keep myself from sharing this with all of you.
Think…..
Some more food for though today.. here is a talk I liked from TED.com. It is about creating a new interface to computing devices. iPhone is a great example of how multi-touch screen can change the way we interact with computers and underlying data. Possibilities are endless.
About this talk
Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.
About Jeff Han
After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that just might herald the end of the point-and-click era. Full bio and more links
TED.com has become one of my favourite sites these days… so far I am loving what I see.
A Documentary About Man’s Quest to Live Forever
According to Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Aging is the most pressing problem of our times. Sciences have progressed a lot, especially biological sciences have come to a point that we are ready to take the next leap into evolution.
The following documentary Originally prepared and shown on Channel 4 follows the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of a strange and one of kind scientist , Dr. Aubrey de Grey. The video you are going to see is all about radical ideals and ideas of Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey de Grey actually believes that, within the next 20 to 30 years, we could extend life span of humans indefinitely by taking care of seven major factors in the aging process.
He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). For more information you can try out this web sites.
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/
10 Most Expensive Antique Computers
When you decide to spend more than a grand on a computer these days, you expect a 2+ GHz processor, 4+ GB RAM. Ever thought wheat you could get for spending a 20 Grand? aka $20,000 USD.. Well I can help you buy a computer with 64 Kilo byte of RAM. At the time it was manufactured, the builder thought “who’s going to need more than 64KB of RAM?”
These are mean, bulky and ugly machines from past but they are getting this hefty price because they work. (Run, check out your garage, see if you have a treasure in your attic? If you have one.. take some pictures and post it for auction on eBay. I wonder how rich that basement guy must have become, since he had the most expensive of all old computers… enough of my ramblings.. enjoy the price tags and junk that you can buy for that. I can’t afford these, I know that for sure.
Presenting the ugliest computers from the past that came with outrageous price tags. Enjoy!
Radio Shack TRS – 80 Model II (1979)
Price : $3,450 (32K RAM)
$3,899 (64 K Ram)
Osborne 1 – Considered to be the first portable computer (1981)
Price : $1,795 (32K RAM)
Otrona Attache (1982)
Price : $3,995 (64K RAM)
Apple Lisa (1983)
Price : $9,995 (1MB) Read the rest of this entry
