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Computer History
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A key board is an input device for a computer. It has many keys which consist of letters, numbers and symbols.
Jay E Freeman founded FA Components in 1980. It was one of the earliest computer hardware distributors and was based in Queens, NY. By 1987 Freeman had built the company to 100 employees in five warehouses across the country. He sold the firm to Cheyenne Software in 1987 and retired.
Freeman was born in Brooklyn NY on June 4, 1938. He married Patricia Staff, June 6, 1964 and they have one daughter, Rachel. Freeman has residences in New York City and London and splits his time between each one.
Freeman went to Stuyvesant HS and graduated from CCNY with a degree in electronic engineering in 1960. He worked for several defense contractors during the 1960s mainly doing digital logic design. During the 1970s he had a variety of jobs including working for the British Consulate as a Commercial Officer, a New Products manager for a hose clamp company and a management consultant at a think tank.
In his retirement Freeman took up long distance walking. With his wife he walked 1300 miles across Europe from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. He walked over 1000 miles on the footpaths of Great Britain. Freeman traveled to 100 countries on all seven continents and dog sledded to the North Pole but failed to reach it by 25 miles.
What is the theme of Pauper by Richard Ntiru?
The theme, like the tittle implies is poverty. the ordeals of the poor and how the masses turn a blind eye to it
gottrified leibnitz is the one who invent the leibnitz calculator.
What is the world wide web composed of?
Cats.
Okay the guy above is an idiot! Anyway..... i don't know what the internet is made of...... not many people do......... so yeah but i know for a fact that it's NOT made of cats!!
Who built the first fully functional computer and what was its name?
First fully functional computer invented in 1944. Name of 1st F.F. computer was the Harvard Mark I, invented by Howard Aiken.
What do you call ARPANET's development in 1996?
ARPANET ceased to exist in 1990, so it was not around in 1996. What was around then, and what ARPANET had a part in creating, was the internet. ARPANET itself, dated back to 1969.
What is the historical rate of demise of mainframe computers?
A mainframe computer is a large computer system that use to be manufactured. The historic demise of the mainframe computer began in the late 1980s when manufactures began making smaller models.
The Greeks first used the Trojan horse to raze the city of Troy
