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23 unusual facts about personal computer


Cobalt Flux

Cobalt Flux has since released a new control box with built-in connectivity for PS2, Xbox, and the PC.

Dave Barry in Cyberspace

The book ends with a fictional story from the second-person viewpoint of a married, stay-at-home mom and her gradual acceptance of and proficiency at using the family PC, especially surfing the internet through the AOL online service.

Digital performance

It was during this time that computer hardware was built to become much more “user – friendly” and we then witnessed the invention of the digital camera and the home PC’s (Personal Computer) and the establishment of the World Wide Web.

Experticity

Experticity is a Salt Lake City, UT-based sales and service solution company, whose Experticity software platform enables enterprises to deliver live on-screen customer service and sales experts to customers in stores, service counters, and directly to consumer PCs.

Heath School

John Hodgman (1971-), humorist and author best known for his personification of a PC in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign.

Hiroko Kasahara

She sang the ending theme song of the PlayStation 2 role-playing video game Shadow Hearts, titled Ending Theme ~ Shadow Hearts, and the ending theme of the PC and PlayStation 2 visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, titled Aqua Stripe

Hirose Financial UK Ltd.

Hirose's trading platform, LION, is based on the Act Forex (ActTrader) system, which can facilitate trades over single or multiple client terminals (PC based, web based, Android phones, iPhone, and iPad).

Horrid Henry

A video game titled Horrid Henry: Missions Of Mischief was released for the Nintendo DS, Wii, and PC on October 30th 2009.

Interactive Tour

The tour was termed "interactive" as Prince considered his material around this time an "experience", with various songs (namely those on The Gold Experience) containing technological beeps, other assorted sounds and an assertive feminine voice reminiscent of those heard on computers at the time.

Jean DeWolff

In the Spider-Man 3 video game (on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions), DeWolff (now spelled as DeWolfe and voiced by Vanessa Marshall) appears as a detective who enlists Spider-Man to help crack down on gun running and crooked cops, although she also shares information with him about the 'Mad Bomber' case.

League Managers Association

The LMA added their name to a series of football management simulation games, LMA Manager series, for the PlayStation 2, and for 2007 the PC.

Live Acoustic

The tracks were recorded live at the debut of iTunes for the PC on October 21, 2003 and were previously only available on iTunes.

Memory bound function

If a computation takes a few seconds on a new PC, it may take a minute on an old PC, and several minutes on a PDA, which might be a nuisance for users of old PCs, but probably unacceptable for users of PDAs.

Mitchell Electronics

Mitchell Electronics' products include the TI-3000 line of servomotor run-rest equipment, TI-4000EX (formerly PulsePro) line of encoder test equipment, TI-5000EX (formerly TI-5000) line of PC based servo feedback test equipment and software and the TI-7000 line of servo feedback field test equipment.

Multiseat desktop virtualization

MultiSeat Desktop Virtualization is a method by which a common desktop PC, with extra keyboards, mice, and video screens directly attached to it, can be used to install, load, and concurrently run multiple operating systems.

Oxford Papershow

The technology involves a USB key to synchronise with the digital pen enabling instant connectivity between pen and PC.

Parker Center

The building is also featured as one of the main locations in Police Quest: Open Season, the fourth installment of the Police Quest series, a 1993 PC video game by Sierra Entertainment.

Remanufacture – Cloning Technology

The tracks "Genetic Blueprint" (New Breed) and "21st Century Jesus" (Pisschrist) featured on Infogrames Test Drive 5 which was released on PC and PlayStation in 1998.

Robert Tinney

In so doing, Tinney became one of the first artists to create a broad yet consistent artistic concept for the computing world, combining a specific artistic style with visual metaphor to showcase emerging trends in personal computing technology.

Sailing to the World

Sailing to the World is an album arrangement by composer Yasunori Mitsuda of the soundtrack from a little-known Taiwanese PC game that Mitsuda scored called Seventh Seal.

The Broken Anchor

The PC adventure game, Ransom of the Seven Ships, is based on this book.

Web interoperability

Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards.

Wi, Inc.

Wi has worked on many point-of-care tests, including designing and prototyping a disposable card, hardware, and mixing on-card assay, and readying the Point-of-Care DNA-MRSA test for full PC control and lab use.


André Truong Trong Thi

In 1973, thanks to François Gernelle and a team of engineers, his company created the Micral, the first non-kit, microprocessor based personal computer in the world.

Area 51 series

The original Area 51 was released into arcades in 1995, and ported in 1996 to the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC.

Asterix: Mega Madness

Asterix: Mega Madness (known as Asterix: Maximum Gaudium in Germany) is an action adventure video game released on 30 May 2001 for the PlayStation and PC.

Atari 5200

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Batman; The Caped Crusader is an action adventure game developed by Special FX Software (Jonathan Smith, Zach Townsend, Charles Davies, and Keith Tinman) and published by Ocean Software for the 8-bit home computers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 and by Data East for other platforms such as the Apple II, Commodore Amiga and PC in 1988.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

Cameltry

A version of the game is also available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC, as part of the Taito Legends 2 collection, and for the PlayStation Portable, as part of the Taito Legends Power-Up collection with the remake version was included in the latter.

Desktop computer

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location desk/table due to its size and power requirements, as opposed to a laptop whose rechargeable battery and compact dimensions allow it to be regularly carried and used in different locations.

Desktop replacement computer

A desktop replacement computer (DTR) is a personal computer that provides the full capabilities of a desktop computer while remaining mobile.

Digital Marketing in Brazil

Customers are offered a range of ways to use the service efficiently, either by browsing on PC or the well-optimised mobile site, using the free mobile app, or by downloading the Buscapé Time browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Fighter brand

Despite the success of its Pentium processors, Intel faced a major threat from less costly processors that were better placed to serve the emerging market for low-cost personal computers, such as the AMD K6.

Gamestation

The chain mainly focused on the sixth & seventh generation of consoles: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as the PC and previous generations of consoles (such as PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance).

Hammerin' Harry

Others were various Japan-only, pachinko machines, as well as home ports of them for Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Windows-operated PCs and Game Boy.

IFPS

IFPS was available for a variety of platforms, including IBM mainframes (VM/CMS), DEC VAX, various flavors of Unix, DOS-based PCs and Macintosh Computers (named "Mindsight"- running on two floppies).

Instrument control

In addition to the hardware bus to control an instrument, software for the PC is also needed.

Intel Architecture Labs

Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the personal-computer system research-and-development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s.

LiMux

The project was successfully completed in late 2013, which involved migrating 15,000 personal computers and laptops of public employees to free and open source software using the Linux distribution "LiMux" (an Ubuntu derivative) as the operating system and LibreOffice as the primary productivity software.

Lord Zedd

Lord Zedd appeared as a boss in the 15th anniversary video game for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 and PC, this marks the first time Zedd has been featured in a game since Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition.

Mac Classic and SE Repair and Upgrade Secrets

Mac Classic and SE Repair and Upgrade Secrets is a book written by Larry Pina that describes how to repair and upgrade a Macintosh Classic and Macintosh SE personal computer without spending more money than required.

Media server

A media server refers either to a dedicated computer appliance or to a specialized application software, ranging from an enterprise class machine providing video on demand, to, more commonly, a small personal computer or NAS (Network Attached Storage) for the home, dedicated for storing various digital media (meaning digital videos/movies, audio/music, and picture files).

Miracle Systems

Miracle Systems Ltd. were a manufacturer of personal computer peripherals and upgrades, specializing in the Sinclair QL, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

MotoGP 2

MotoGP 2 (also known as MotoGP 2: Ultimate Racing Technology) is a Grand Prix motorcycle racing video game developed by Climax Brighton for the Xbox and personal computer.

PC Format

Despite the occasional mention of alternatives, PC Format takes the term 'PC' to mean a Microsoft Windows-based computer.

Play, The Videogames World

Displayed on 1300 square meters, it showed over 300 videogames starting from the 1961 Space War to the latest hits for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

Smaky

The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland beginning in 1974.

Star Warped

Star Warped was released in late 1997, with versions for the Windows PC and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

SuperBASIC

This project was later cancelled, however, SuperBASIC was subsequently included in the ROM firmware of the Sinclair QL personal computer (launched in January 1984), also serving as the command interpreter for the QL's Qdos operating system.

TeleType Co., Inc.

It develops and sells the WorldNav software for PC and Windows CE, tools for converting third party maps into WorldNav maps, an SDK and an API that allow the customization of the WorldNav application.

The Scone Advocate

In 2007, Fairfax Media acquired Rural Press in an agreed merger, while locally, the paper's Macintosh computers were replaced with PCs.

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk is the only Tiny Toon Adventures-related video game released on the Personal Computer.

Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble is a 3D platforming video game by Ubisoft Montreal, first released in Europe on the PC in early 1999.

Top Trumps Adventures: Dogs and Dinosaurs

Top Trumps Adventures: Dogs and Dinosaurs is a video game for the DS, PC and PlayStation 2 consoles, based on the popular Top Trumps card game.

Top Trumps Adventures: Horror and Predators

Top Trumps Adventures: Horror and Predators is a video game for the DS, PC and PlayStation 2 consoles, based on the popular Top Trumps card game.

Toy Story Midway Mania!

The attraction features more than 150 PCs, which includes one HP Windows XP PC for each of Midway Mania's 56 game screens, as well as others that control the special effects at each game.

VisiCalc

Triumph of the Nerds, A documentary hosted by Robert X. Cringely that featured the creators of VisiCalc and their contribution as the first killer app for the personal computer.

W ABC

W ABC was a program that converted files from Luxor ABC 80 and ABC 800 to PC compatible computers.

Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark (born 1927) is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers (such as the PDP-1) the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer.

Wik and the Fable of Souls

On both the PC and the Xbox 360, each level includes three gems; (A Ruby, an Emerald, and a Diamond) capturing all of these throughout the course of the game is required in order to achieve the best ending.