Introduction

Contents

• Item1
• Computer Usage Rate by Race

@@computers - see education/computers


@@ARM

ABOUT 3X VOLUME OF ARM TO X86 PROCESSORS IN 2002
http://www.embedded.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=9900861
The Two Percent Solution By Jim Turley Embedded Systems Design
(12/18/02, 10:10:56 AM EST) Processors make up only a small percentage
of semiconductor volume, yet they generate most of the revenue.  At
the opposite end of the scale are-big surprise-32-bit microprocessors.
This category includes PC processors like Pentium 4 and Athlon, of
course, but also dozens of embedded processors such as PowerPC, 68k,
MIPS, and ARM chips. In fact, most (98% or so) 32-bit processors are
used in embedded systems, not PCs. Embedded 32-bit chips have outsold
PC processors every year by a wide margin. ARM-based chips alone do
about triple the volume that Intel and AMD peddle to PC makers. 


@@ATX

http://www.cizgi.com.tr/Tech/atx.htm ATX motherboard spec 

@@black

BLACKS 25% OF ONLINE SERVICES, COMPUTER SPENDING UP 2X EVERY YEAR??
AP 09/09/1997 Study: Blacks' Income on the Rise By CLIFF EDWARDS AP
Business Writer \clip\97\20\blakspen.txt Summary: The U.S. Commerce
Department's 1996 annual consumer spending survey and found that
blacks represent 25 percent of spending on online services, and
spending on computer hardware and software doubled every year from
1993-95, totaling $741 million last year.


>>\doc\96\02\onlnblak.txt "Survey of Online Blacks" Wall Street Journal
march 6, 1996 p. B1According to BOBC news (bobcnews@aol.com) black
newslist readers are

45% household income over $50,000
10% household income over $100,000
77% bachelors degree or higher vs 12% general population
35% advanced degree

\doc\95\06\minmodem.txt "Minorities Expand Cyberspace's Universe"
Wall Street Journal May 10, 1995 p. b1 5% of modems are owned by
African Americans

@@CD-ROM

SOME CD-R MAY FAIL AFTER ONLY 2 YEARS
PC-Active edition: 3 out of 31 recordable CD brands tested in the
Netherlands had serious errors less than two years after they were
recorded. Manufacturers typically claim they will last 10 years under
normal conditions. Seattle Times Sep 8, 2003



@@College Use

z48\clip\2001\02\compcoll.txt
http://www.knight-ridder.com/ 
http://www.swrworldwide.com/ 
An SWR Worldwide 
study, commissioned by Best Buy, found that more than 50 percent 
of college freshmen brought a desktop or laptop computer to 
college in 2000, compared to just 13 percent in 1990. The study 
also found that 24 percent of today's students plan to bring a 
laptop to class regularly, compared to 4 percent of students 10 
years ago. Meanwhile, 20 percent of today's students use cell 
phones, 11 percent use pagers, 44 percent use CD players, and 11 
percent use personal digital assistants. The study revealed 
that 17 percent of students used the Web or e-mail to register 
for classes. (Knight-Ridder, 22 February 2001) 
`


@@computer sales

In 1997, there are well over 200 million PC's in use worldwide, over
1/3 are in the United States. That's about 75 million in the USA, or
about 1 for every 3 people in the USA. Japan is about 1/2 the
population of the USA but 1/4 as many computers.

PC's By Region Sept 2, 1997 Investor's Business Daily

Worldwide Pc's millions
1995  190
1996  210
1997e 270
2001e 510,000

PC's Retired
1995 22 million
1996 30 million

37% US
20% Western Europe
13% Asia-Pacific
10% Japan
4%  Canada
2%  Latin America
14% Rest of World

Source: Dataquest

Global PC Sales
as cited in Investors Business Daily March 2, 2000
etforecasts www.etforcasts.com
1995 60
1998 90
1999 110
2000 125
2002 160
2005 210

1999   2005e                   1999 2005e
37%    32%   North America     40   70
23%    26%   Asia Pacific      30   50
27%    25%   Western Europe    25   58
 3%     5%   Eastern Europe    5    15
10%    12%   Other

Business Week July 28, 1997 p. 31
worldwide shipments of PC's per year
94 ~50
95 ~60
96 ~70
--- est ----
97 ~76
93 ~87

\clip\97\02\compsale.txt 71 million personal computers were sold
world wide in 1996, up 18%

\priv\96b\05\asinpc.txt Sales of personal computers grew 44 percent
to over 7 million units last year in Japan. The United States remains
by far the largest market for personal computers. Last year, over 27
million units were sold, 35 percent of the world's total, IDC said.

Wall Street Journal April 29, 1996 - International Data Corp
estimates 5.7 million PCs were shipped per quarter (24 million per
year) compared to 5.0 million in 1995. San Jose Mercury News 5/6/96
"INTEL: 100 MILLION PC SALES BY 1998" Intel predicts 100 million
total sales by 1997-98, with .5 million per year in India alone.

@@copyright


%%lawsuit

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/
Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits
By David Kravets   July 22, 201
Gibson’s vision is to monetize news content on the backend, by
scouring the internet for infringing copies of his client’s articles,
then suing and relying on the harsh penalties in the Copyright Act —
up to $150,000 for a single infringement — to compel quick settlement

company: http://www.righthavenlawsuits.com/


From:             H-Net Exec Director Richard Jensen 
Subject:               Re: QUERY:  Ethnic and Migration Research Resources
To:               Multiple recipients of list H-ETHNIC 

all books published in usa before 1922 are free of copyright
and can be scanned or copies or reprinted at will.
Richard Jensen

@@Data General

Nova Eclipse MV

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Midrange/Data_General/
http://www.simulogics.com/ - historial bits

@@dsl

z47\clip\2001\02\dslhell.txt
Forbes
Highway To Hell
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0219/098_print.html098chart1_chart.shtml 
EVEN BY THE LOW STANDARDS for service and credibility set by many firms 
riding the Internet bubble, the Digital Subscriber Line industry is a mess.

@@dvd standard

Philips, Europe's largest maker of consumer electronics and lighting,
said Friday that its new dual-layer technology raised the capacity of
recordable DVDs (DVD+R) to 8.5GB from 4.7GB for single-layer DVD
discs. 1.3MB/sec 10.4Mbits/sec 


@@email

>\doc\95\14\email.wk1 E-Mail Access by Race and Income: Whites Most,
But Asians Are Least Likely to Have Email, Despite Technical /
Professional Concentration. 
Summary: W12.0%(1.00) B9.4%(-1.28) H8.4%(-1.43) A7.3%(-1.64)		
Source: RAND study (1993) 


@@education


http://www.ets.org/research/pic/
ftp://etsis1.ets.org/pub/res/technolog.pdf 
\clip\98\15\technolog.pdf
Does it Compute? The Relationship Between Educational Technology and
Student Achievement in Mathematics 

source: 1996 NAEP mathematics assessment

Percentage of fourth-graders who report using computers a school at 
least once a week

8/4 grade
28  33 US
33  42 black
30  33 asian
26  32 hispanic
28  32 white
31  34 male
26  33 female
29  35 school lunch
26  32 not eligible school lunch
29  37 southeast
29  35 northeast
28  34 west 
28  28 central
34  34 public
28  28 private
31  35 urban
28  33 rural
25  32 suburban

Low income, public, urban, and blacks are the most likely to use
computers, which explains the negative correlation with achievement.

4th graders with access to home computers

58 us
68 asian
64 white
45 black
44 hispanic

58 male
58 female

65 school lunch ineligible
41 eligible

65 northeast
61 central
57 west 
50 southeast

74 private
56 public

63 suburban
53 urban
52 rural

8th grade shows same pattern

fourth graders using computer at home

33 us
53 black
36 asian
33 hispanic
29 white

33 male
32 female
41 eligible school lunch
29 ineligible school lunch
38 southeast 
35 west 
33 northeast
26 central

33 public
27 private

35 urban
32 suburban
31 rural

8th graders using computers
47 us
49 asian
47 white
43 black
43 hispanic

47 male
46 female

46 ineligible
42 eligible

50 west
47 central
46 northeast
43 southeast

51 private
46 public

47 urban
47 suburban
43 rural


Learning games vs. drill (NAEP survey)

learning games / drill type
57 35 Asian
57 35 Hispanic
56 35 White
48 42 Black
56 35 ineligible
55 38 eligible

8th graders, teachers report simulations/applications vs
drill/practice as primary computer use

43 27 Asian
31 30 White
25 34 Hispanic
14 52 Black
33 31 Ineligible
22 34 Eligible

@@Failure

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1126&tag=nl.e550
The 10 biggest failures in IT history
Date: October 30th, 2009
Author: Jack Wallen

1: Windows VistaWhat a disaster! Could Microsoft have assembled a
bigger failure if it tried? Well, possibly. But Microsoft wasn’t
trying to make a failure — it was trying to make the best of the best.
The result was the worst of the best.

2: NeXTI have to qualify this entry, because NeXT did inspire a lot of
software for the Linux desktop (such as AfterStep), and the NeXTSTEP
did eventually become the foundation of OS X. So NeXT wasn’t a
complete flop.

3: BeOSWhat is it with the capiTalIzaTion? Although BeOS has been
resurrected as Haiku, the BeOS (and all the cool hardware it promised)
never really got off the ground. The PC that promised to be the dream
machine for the media crowd fizzled out before its fuse could really
be lit.

4: Cobalt QubeThe Cobalt Qube looked cool. If you’re lucky, you can
still find one on eBay going cheap. Underneath that tiny blue exterior
lay a beefy 64 MB of RAM and an 8.4 Gig HD that was ready and willing
to serve up your Web site, your mail, your DNS, or anything else you
needed. Ah, but those were the glory days — and short-lived at that.
The serious IT crowed quickly realized that function held sway over
form, and the cool blue Qubes went nowhere. Even after Sun bought the
Cobalt company, these devices did nothing.

5: Y2KI can’t resist including this one. The entire world was supposed
to cave under the pressure this little bug promised, wasn’t it? I even
read plenty of sci-fi books based on that premise. But nothing
happened. Banks didn’t lose all of your money, the world’s security
didn’t fall to pieces, and all IT professionals woke up the next
morning collectively saying, “Was that it?”

6: MP3I know, I know — it isn’t a flop, exactly, but the MP3 format is
on this list because of all the licensing issues it has caused. On the
Linux operating system alone, MP3 isn’t installed on most
distributions, by default, because of licensing issues. As a result,
users scramble to get MP3 support built into their various tools. This
causes as much hair loss as MP3 causes audio quality loss. There are
much better formats out there without the licensing issues, people!

7: Richard StallmanThis man was supposed to be the champion of open
source — but he endangers open source at every turn. Instead of making
ridiculous claims, RMS should stand down and let someone with a
modicum of tact and sense to take over as the voice of open source
software.

8: WordPerfectWhat I should actually place here is Corel, the maker of
WordPerfect, instead of the software itself. WordPerfect was an
outstanding word processing tool. Corel, however, was not outstanding
in its ability to market and sell something as good as WordPerfect. So
instead of a piece of software that should have single-handedly
toppled the Microsoft juggernaut, WordPerfect died. This should never
have happened. Any other company could have pulled off this win.

9: IPv6Should this already be in place? Should something so simple
really be that hard? The ‘net could run out of IP addresses and there
is no solution in place yet. Why? Because we don’t have the problem
yet. But didn’t everyone panic with claims that the “IP sky is
falling”? Wouldn’t it be smart to go ahead and put this in place?
Maybe the powers-that-be are waiting until that very last IPv4 address
is issued and we have to say, “We have no more!” At that point, no one
will really know how to implement the solution and it will be Y2K all
over again.

10: Mesh networksAt one point, wireless was going to cover the entire
planet and everyone was going to have free wireless networking, thanks
to wireless mesh networks. It didn’t happen. It sounded like a great
idea, and sites popped up all over the place trying to get users to
set up their own mesh networks to further expand the “net.” It was a
grand idea, based on a grand ideal, but it just never got off the
ground. That’s a shame, since a “mesh Wifi” would have enabled anyone
to be online anywhere. Of course, I am sure the telecoms had NOTHING
to do with the fall of mesh networking



@@game

Computer & Net Game Player: Online Game Reviews

http://www.ogr.com/reviews/pyst.shtml
\clip\97\06\pyst\pyst.htm
\priv\97\02\pyst.txt newsgroup review - mostly bad
Pyst review

@@Hewlett Packard

%%HP Journal

http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/hpjindex.html

HP Oldies - German site, lists desktop computers hp9830 1972
Konventionell aufgebauter Prozessor auf 4 Boards.
Basic Programmierbar mit 4-16 KByte (32KB 9830B). 
 Standard Schreibmaschinen Tastatur Layout 
 Display 32 Zeichen, LED 
www.egliedv.ch/hpoldi.htm

HP 2100

http://www.hp9825.com/html/hp_2116.html   
HP: The Accidentally, On-Purpose Computer Company
history 
 
Detailed PDF with instruction set:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/HP/HP.2100.1972.102646165.pdf

http://oscar.taurus.com/~jeff/2100/ HP2100 manuals
ax accum 1
bx accum 2

AX has a few more instructions than BX, most
load, store, add work with AX or BX

compare to intel 8080
http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/bshelburne/Comp255S/Intel01.htm
The Structure of the CPU
8 (or 12) General Purpose 16 bit Registers 
Four 16-bit registers can be divided into two 8-bit registers 
AX = AH|AL - Accumulator (Accumulator High|Accumulator Low) 
BX = BH|BL - Base (High|Low)- can be used as "pointer" 
CX = CH|CL - Count (High|Low) - used for counting loops 
DX = DH|DL - Data (High|Low) - paired with AX for "combined" 32-bit register. DX is high word, AX is low word. 
Four 16-bit registers used for Indexing and Stack 
SI - Source Index - used for indirect addressing 
DI - Destination Index - used for indirect addressing 
SP - Stack Pointer - accesses Stack Segment 
BP - Base Pointer (stack frame pointer) 
6 Special Purpose Registers 
CS (Code); DS (Data); ES (Extra); (SS) Stack segment registers 
IP - Instruction Pointer holds address of next instruction (i.e. a program counter) 
Flag Register - OF|DF|IF|TF|SF|ZF|AF|PF|CF "flag" bits 
Overflow Flag set if last operation caused "signed overflowed" 
Sign Flag set if last operation was negative 
Zero Flag set if last operation resulted in 0 
Carry Flag set if last operation had carry out

HP1000 BOUGHT FROM DSI IN 1964
1ST 16 BIT MINICOMPUTER (PDP-11 IS 2ND)
http://interex.org/tech/csl/RTE/archive/poyner1.htm
\clip\2005\01\Twenty Five Years of Real-Time Computing
1984 CS command stack introduced

HP2100 was also the basis for HP9800 basic computers
like HP9830, which ran about as fast as an original
IBM PC.

http://www.sieler.com/hp250/
HP250 Desktop computer expanded into entire desk
workstation with 2 8" floppy drives, screen with
softkeys built into bottom of screen. Popular in
Europe.

HP300 "Amigo" Very little data on the internet.
This was a "baby" HP3000 with a built in console.
Featured a fixed 12MB drive, and softkeys mounted on
the right hand side of the screen. I belive it also
featured independent windows on the console. It was
a commercial flop but incorporated many ideas now
standard in pcs and servers.

+---+
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|    |
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/hpjindex.html
HP Journal June 1979
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1979-06.pdf (8M)


AMIGO/300 
Small, user-friendly OS for the Hewlett-Packard 300. Late 1970s [Carpenter 1979].

HP3000 16 bit stack computer 1967-2001
http://www.3k.com/faq/hpfaqi.html
code segment (16bit offset, 16bit segments)
data segment (static 16bit)
stack segment 16bit
Instead of load AX - 1, load BX - 2, add ax to bx, you
would push 1, push 2, add.
You couldn't access 64k of code, but you could
effectively access as many as 64,000 routines, since
the address was based on code segment, and routine
number within the segment, so
were limited so much in code.
Call pointers were restricted in that they knew
how many arguments were called - this would make it
difficult to implment variable arguments in C.

This guy has pictures
http://www.sieler.com/hp300/
z85\clip\2005\01\hp300
\images\2005\09\12\HP250 HP300.jpg

http://www.3k.com/papers/hp3000_history.html
HP's EARLY COMPUTERS, Part Three:
THE STRONGEST CASTLE:
The Rise, Fall and Rise of the HP 3000

stack computers
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/appa.html

cancels 3000 in 2001
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/11/14/144200.shtml


@@Honeywell

http://starfish.osfn.org/~mikeu/h316/history.shtml
Kitchen computer $10,000 in 1969

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1493/ddj0003hc/

@@IBM 360

Classic 1960s giant business computer

IBM System / 360 Principles of Operation
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-0_360PrincOps.pdf
Maximum 24 bit address or 16,777,216 bytes 16M
8 bit byte plus extra parity 9th bit
16 general fixed point registers
 4 floating point

@@Internet explorer

from
http://www.shanmcarthur.net/Default.aspx?DN=e8102d16-c83d-4bfb-9b21-63a082a05956
Tired of the annoying popups while you are browsing the Microsoft
website and other trusted websites?  You probably will open control
panel and go to programs and features, then click on the "turn windows
features on or off".  That just takes you to the Server manager, and
you won't see the familiar add/remove screen with the IE security
listed in the feature list.  The screen still takes you to the correct
place.  Look in the sidebar under the security information section.
Notice the link "configure IE ESC".  That is not how to configure the
escape key behavior in IE, but a link to configure the Internet
Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration.  Click the link.

There is a difference in Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 on the behavior
of the enhanced security module for IE.  In Windows 2003, it was
either on or off, but in Windows 2008, they made it configurable to be
on or off for Administrators or Users.  The default is on for both
groups.
 


@@internet use


ASIANS MOST, AFRICAN AM LEAST LIKELY TO SURF WEB
People who surft the web daily
45% Asian Am
38% Other
35% Major City
32% Suburb
31% White
26% Smaller City
22% Hispanic
20% Rural
17% African American
Survey of 1,008 adult US residents June 2002 by
Scripps Howard News Service.
Seattle PI Aug 13, 2002

ENGLISH SPEAKING ASIANS USE INTERNET THE MOST
"Study finds Asian Americans using internet most often" Northwest
Asian Weekly Jan 5, 2002 Anick Jesdanun AP
Study by Pew Internet and American Life Project of english speaking
persons in USA. 
Online on a typical day: A70 W58 H58 B39
2 hours  40A
4 hours  15A
% male A58 W50 H50 B43
Asians younger %18-34 A66 All 41

www.commerce.net/research
June 1998 Noelson Media Research and CommerceNet

Internet use
58% Asian men (highest)
38% Asian women
24% AfrAm 
24% American Indians

Communications of ACM Oct 1998 p. 9


ONE IN FOUR ADULTS IN U.S. AND CANADA USE THE INTERNET More than one
in four adults in the United States and Canada now use the Internet,
and they are spending an increasing amount of time and money there,
according to a survey from Nielsen Media Research. More than 58
million people are on the Internet, up about 14 percent from a survey
in the spring.  Leslie Miller, "1 in 4 now using the Net" USA Today,
December 11, 1997, A1

\doc\96\04\apanet.txt "Virtual APA Community" Asian Week may 31, 1996
p. 18 Phoenix Tea House http://www.phoenixteahouse.com is a division
of Pandasoft Corp in Mountain view. Their surveys of net users
estimates that 3% of internet users, 300,000 are Asian / Pacific
Islanders. They offer a place to discuss Asian issue (so do the
various soc.culture.asian newsgroups)

\priv\96\04\webuse.htm 1 in 11 adults used the Web by 1996

\priv\96\04\scholnet.txt New York Times February 17, 1996 "Survey
Finds Disparities In Public Schools' Internet Access" By RANDOLPH E.
SCHMID


Percentage of schools with internet connections
Northeast   59%
Central     52%
South*      44%
Min>50%*    40%
Min 6-20    58%
Surburban   59%
Rural       48%
Cities*     47%

Minorities the lowest, but even 40% is nearly half and within
striking distance of 58% in suburban and low-minority schools

\doc\96\15\webmark.txt "Marketers Get Some Needed Ammunition" Web
Week Dec 1995 p. 21 Nielsen finds 17% have internet access, 11% have
used internet in past 3 months, 8% have used the web (75% of internet
users)



@@IPV6

IPV6 IN 2011 FAILED TO EXCEED .15 TO .3 PERCENT OF IP TRAFFIC
http://www.betanews.com/article/Shields-down-IPv6-is-not-ready-for-attack/1307461641
in spite of years of advocacy and government mandates, IPv6 traffic
remains a small percentage of overall traffic, according to a
recent study by Arbor Networks. They looked at six large service
providers in North America and Europe over six months. All IPv6
traffic typically ran in the neighborhood of 0.15 percent with brief
peaks as high as 0.3 percent. The large majority of this traffic is
tunneled traffic, using transition protocols like 6to4 or Teredo, yet
tunneled traffic never exceeded 0.05 percent of overall traffic and
usually constituted much less.

Image courtesy of Arbor Networks
So IPv6 is a
failure so far

@@Mapping

%%Building

Map places, people, and relationships inside a building with open source software
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-gimpmap/index.html?ca=drs-

Map / directory kiosk
http://www.rockmedia.com/web%20kiosk%20solutions.html

Touchscreen Suppliers Mass Multimedia info@touchscreens.com Colorado
Springs, CO 
FastPoint info@fastpoint.com Stanton, CA 

Very sophisticated - map with zoom
The Carlson School information kiosk is located on the first floor
atrium and skyway level. The kiosk displays upcoming events, a
directory to search for faculty and staff, plus a building map for
room locations. The kiosk information is also accessible online:

Tabs: Directory  Room Locator
http://work.csom.umn.edu/kiosk/flash/default.htm
click on room number bring up zoom-able map
Unit Or area - Academic Dean -

Simple - create map for each room
http://www.cob.niu.edu/kiosk/mapdetails.asp?photoname=mapsall.gif
Northern illinois University
Barsema Hall Virtual Information Desk
Each room has its own picture
http://www.cob.niu.edu/kiosk/mapdetails.asp?photoname=236.gif
128.gif

http://www.kingproducts.com/products/kiosksoftware/directory/
Kiosk software
Kiosk

Easy to search directories for:
Building
Mall
Product information
Meeting room schedule display; Can be displayed on main or secondary screen 
Map support 
JPEG images supported
Locate directory entries on map
Define paths
Zoom and Pan map view
“You are here” location 

Airport map Toronto
http://www.gtaa.com/en/travellers/airport_information/terminal_info/

%%Building Directory

Interactive building map
http://www.itcdc.com/interactiveMap.html
Ronald Regan building
Click on room name highlights floor and area

Caltech
http://www.caltech.edu/map/

MIT directory
http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?options=general&query=marcus+thompson
(lists phone and address,but no map)

http://www.tabletandticket.com/
They make lobby directories, but all manual. No electronics.

http://www.mediaonline-solutions.com/Solutions/commercial_building.htm
This is a digital flat panel building directory

Touch screen PC kiosk
http://www.mediaonline-solutions.com/Products/kiosk.htm

Quality Attributes Software
Contract for energy monitor system
about $100,000
http://www.tempe.gov/PublicBodies/Docs/Council/SupportingDocuments/20080605fsts25.pdf

flicker page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greentouchscreen/

King County kiosk
http://kcob.kingcounty.greentouchscreen.com/

Montcalm community college
http://ash.montcalm.greentouchscreen.com/


http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Beck+Technology+and+Quality+Attributes+Software+Extend+the+Reach+of...-a0162886213
About Quality Attributes Software 
Quality Attributes Software is an industry leader in Intelligent
Building software for the green building, renewable energyRenewable
energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and
geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy
technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity
to biomass and biofuels for transportation.  ..... Click the link for
more information. and energy monitoring market. Quality Attributes
develops web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application.
iBPortal applications that acquire, trend, display and report live
building performance data pertaining to energy usage and costs. The
complexity made simple through Quality Attributes applications helps
building owners and managers understand how their hidden systems are
behaving and enables them to make better decisions and understand
their ROI. Quality Attributes rounds out their software offering to
the intelligent building market with their GreenTouchscreen,
iBDirectory and iBDonor products.

@@Microprocessor

http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/cpu.html
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present


@@Network


Which type of WAN connection can provide the MOST bandwidth?

39,813:   c. OC-x   
Transmission rates are defined by rate of the bitstream of the digital
signal and are designated by hyphenation of the acronym OC and an
integer value of the multiple of the basic unit of rate, e.g., OC-48.
The base unit is 51.84 Mbit/s.[2] Thus, the speed of
optical-carrier-classified lines labeled as OC-n is n × 51.84 Mbit/s.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates
OC-768 / STM-256
OC-768 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 39,813.12
Mbit/s (payload: 38,486.016 Mbit/s (38.486016 Gbit/s); overhead:
1,327.104 Mbit/s (1.327104 Gbit/s)).

1.544 a. T1
http://www.worldnet-long-distance.com/t1-bandwidth-chart/
The standard speed of a T1 line is 1.544 Mbps
http://ezinearticles.com/?Common-Questions-on-T1-Bandwidth---With-Practical-Answers&id=501564
T1's are business connections. Cable/DSL services are usually
residential.
T1's normally have:
* unlimited throughput
* a guaranteed uptime per month
* no port blocking, allowing servers
* upload 2-5x as high as cable/DSL
* a dedicated line
T1 is a point-to-point link. T1 was developed in the late early 1960's
to carry 24 digitized phone calls between telephone switching offices.
Think of T1 as a simple pipe, between you and the service provider
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/501564

1.472M PRI  d. ISDN
http://bandwidth.com/wiki/article/ISDN
Basic Rate Interface consists of two B channels, each with bandwidth
of 64 kb and one D Channel with a bandwidth of 16 kbps. Together these
three channels are known as 2B D. Available data bandwidth is 128Kb
and the available voice lines is 2. Two B Channels are most commonly
bonded together using MLPPP.
Primary Rate Interface
Contains 23 B channels and a D channel with a bandwidth of 64 kbps.
Since the signaling has a dedicated channel the bandwidth is higher
than the typical analog line's 56kb. Available data bandwidth is
1,472Kb (1.472Mb) and the available voice lines is 23


64k   b. X.25
  Traditionally, the maximum bandwidth of X.25 has been 64 kbit/s,




@@Phone

Windows Phone 10% of iphone: only 2.5 million phones in the first
quarter of 2011 (Apple shipped 18.65 iPhones, and 35.7 million Android
phones were sold), I source:
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=35571&page=2

 @@QMS 410

http://www.printerworks.com/Catalogs/LX-Catalog/LX-NewUsers.html
LX Parts catalog
z48\clipim\2001\03\22\lxprint\lxprint.htm
All Canon LX-based printers from HP, Canon and others (except Apple)
can have the HP and LX OEM versions of an optional lower cassette
feeder attached interchangeably to add a second input source of 250
sheet capacity. 

http://www.qms.com/products/consumables/consum1.htm
\clipim\2001\03\22\qmspart\qmspart.htm
Optional Lower Paper Feeder Tray Tray attaches to the bottom of the
-PS 410 or 420 to accommodate letter, legal, A4, executive and
envelope trays. (Comes with letter-size tray) $195


@@Rogue Wireless Access Point

A Rogue Access Point is a Wi-Fi Access Point which is setup by an
attacker for the purpose of sniffing wireless network traffic.
source: http://www.tech-faq.com/rogue-wireless-access-point.html


@@Security Baseline Report

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or MBSA is a freeware application
that can be downloaded from the Microsoft’s official website q MBSA
can be used to generate a baseline report of the state of a computer
just after a fresh operating system is installed the bare metal
machine source: Vivek Nayyar 16 Apr 2011
http://www.pctips3000.com/assess-network-security-with-microsoft-baseline-security-analyzer-2-1-1/


@@Service Survey

PC Magazine July 2000 Service & Reliablity
Notebooks
1. Dell
2. IBM
last Compaq

Desktop
Best
Dell Gateway HP Micron
Worst
Acer, AST, Compusa, Pack Bell

Printers
Best HP, Epson, Panasonic
Worst Canon, Okidata, Xerox

@@SPARC

Sun processor design

Originally introduced in 1987
Versions up to 8 are 32 bit

document from 1994
http://www.sparc.org/standards/SPARCV9.pdf 
Version 9 is 64 bit

@@Terminal


%%HP

http://www.gaby.de/2647.htm HP2647 programmable terminal
2MHz 8080A
zip87\clipim\2005\04\hp2647

Also see HP2645A
www.austinfs.fsnet.co.uk/ fixed_pages/HP1000.html

HP Journal
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/hpjindex.html
   /1978-01.pdf
Jan 1978 HP 2648 graphics terminal

HP700 terminals latest version

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hp2621.html
z87\clipim\2005\04\hp2621\hp2621

http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=244 The 2700 was the most
advanced terminal built by HP in its first 25 years in the computer
industry. The top-of-the-range models included dual 5.25 inch floppy
disc drives as well as PAINTBRUSH/2700 AND AUTOPLOT/2700 software. A
graphics tablet came standard with all but the entry-level model. The
2700 could produce up to 4096 colors, up to 16 of which could be
displayed at any time. Graphics resolution was 512 x 390 dots.
The 2700 was on the market for less than a year. It failed because it
was far too expensive relative to the 9836C which could perform the
same functions for about a third the price.
Product Number: 2703A 
Introduced: 1982 
Price: Unknown 
2700 Catalogue Reference: 1984, page 615 
(I worked nearby this project in winter, 1981)


@@usage
z48\CLIP\2001\03\digdiv.txt
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_commentprint031601a.html
What Digital Divide?  Another of the Left’s myths goes bust.  By Neil
Seeman, NRO associate editor March 16, 2001 9:20 a.m.  The "digital
divide" is dead.  "People with low incomes using the World
Wide Web at home accounted for the fastest-growing online group over
the last," quoth the Times, referring to a new report by
Nielsen/NetRatings. Minorities have also jumped onto the web in
record numbers. Nearly nine million African Americans surfed the net
in the past year; that compares to 87 million whites, 6 million
Hispanics, 2 million Asian Americans, and almost 1 million American
Indians.  Going by the new 2001 census figures, this means that
nearly the same proportion of blacks (26%) is cruising the Net as
whites (32%). American Indians, it turns out, are more net-literate
than whites. 


BLACKS TRAIL WHITES AGAIN - BUT ASIANS ARE ON TOP!
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U.S. Cites Race Gap in Use of Internet By
John Schwartz Washington Post Friday, July 9, 1999; Page A1 
The full report and underlying statistics can be						   
found online at www.ntia.doc.gov.

Report: 'racial ravine' exists 
Seattle Times 7/8/99 55% of Asians vs
47% Whites, < 25% blacks, 25.5 % Hispanics have home computers. 36%
of Asians (the most) have internet access. With low incomes, blacks
are 1/3 Hispanics 1/4 as likely to to have computeers. The college
educated are 8 times more likely to have computers, 16 times more
likely to have internet connection.
IGNORING ASIAN COMPUTER SUPERIORITY
\clip\99\15\digdiv.txt
A Snapshot View of a Complex World
by David Boaz 
Thursday, July 15, 1999
Once again, front-page headlines are trumpeting a "digital divide."
"Internet revolution bypassing poor, minorities," USA Today says;
"Report Finds Net Users Increasingly White, Well Off," The Washington
Post says.  The headlines are based on Falling through the Net:
Defining the Digital Divide, a 108-page report from the Commerce
Department's National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA).  The NTIA plays down the fact that Asian
households at every income level are more likely than whites to have
a computer, and The Washington Post and USA Today ignored Asians in
their front-page stories on the racial divide.

ASIANS MOST LIKELY TO HAVE COMPUTERS AND MODEMS IN INNER CITY
\clip\96\10\compuse.gif Computer Access Among Inner City Residents
By Race

Source: US Dept of Commerce 1995 As cited by Channel A
http://www.channela.com/community/issues/ Dec, 1996
                 A       H       B       W
No Computer      62     90      90       70
Computer Only    20      8       5       15
Computer / Modem 18      5       4       15

\doc\96\06\asintrav.txt "Study shows Asian American travelers are a
unique and growing market" International Examiner (Seattle) Oct 2,
1996 p. 11 Source: Travel Industry Association of America

                 Asian  Black  Hispanic
% own PC         59%    28%    42%
(computer)


\clip\96\04\singcens.txt AP 20-Sep-1996 14:56 EDT REF5487 Copyright
1996. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.  Singapore Censors
Internet Websites: Singapore has one of the highest rates of Net
users in the world -- about 20 percent of its 750,000 households are
connected. 


\doc\95\10\comprace - computer use by race, census
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/population/socdemo/computer

Summary - Asians as "other" either 1nd or 1st place in most
categories after White. Blacks and Hispanics both equally low in
general access, but equal to whites in school use.

  Table A.  LEVEL OF ACCESS AND USE OF COMPUTERS:  1984, 1989, and 1993
            (Numbers in thousands)
                                   *******Number*******    *****Percent*****
  Access, use, and age            1984     1989     1993   1984   1989   1993
3 to 17
W  Access to a computer          7,048   10,773   15,821   17.1   26.7   35.8
B  Access to a computer            461      806    1,152    6.1   10.6   13.0
H  Access to a computer            191      514      795    4.6    9.6   12.1
Over 18
W  Access to a computer         13,782   26,902   42,814    9.6   18.3   26.9
B  Access to a computer            780    1,573    2,949    4.4    8.4   13.8
H  Access to a computer            372    1,005    1,954    4.1    8.0   12.9

  Table B.  USE OF COMPUTERS AT HOME, SCHOOL, AND WORK BY PERSONS 18 YEARS
             AND OLDER:  OCTOBER 1993
            (Numbers in thousands.  Civilian noninstitutional population.)

                           *Percent*    ************Uses Computer************
                                         at home      at school      at work
                           Uses  With
                          comp- comp-          % of                        % of
                           uter  uter          with          % of          with
                      All  any-    at         comp-         enrol-            a
  Characteristics Persons where  home  Number  uter  Number   led  Number   job
  RACE
  White           158,927  37.5< 26.9  27,417  66.7<  5,980  53.1  45,326  47.1<
  Black            21,361  25.0  13.8   1,582  56.8     909  54.8   4,072  36.1
  Hispanic         15,103  22.0  12.9   1,090  61.3     534  50.0   2,492  29.3
  Other             7,117  35.6  31.3<  1,166  55.8     549  60.3<  1,708  42.3
Note - "Other" includes Asian, highest at home, and students enrolled

  GENDER
  Male             89,484  36.2  27.1  16,301  70.0<  3,626  55.9  24,414  40.3
  Female           97,921  35.8  24.3  13,864  61.1   3,812  51.9  26,692  52.4<
Women more likely to work with computers, probably due to pink-collar work vs.
outdoors and factory blue collar jobs.

asian.computers
\doc\95\02\homeelec.txt
Investor's Business Daily Feb 28, 1995
Households with Electronic Items:

80%  VCR    
58%  Answering Machines
50%  Cordless Phone
42%  Stereo TV
40%  CD Players
38%  Video Game software
33%  Personal Computer
20%  Camcorder
 8%  Cellular Phones
 5%  TV/VCR combo

Households (millions) with

35 computers
15 modems
10 cd-roms
 5 on-line subscriptions

Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates, 
Electronic Industries Association


@@wap

z47\clip\2000\12\wapbad.txt
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001210.html Following a UK field
study, 70% of users decided not to continue using Wireless
Application Protocol. Currently, its services are poorly designed,
have insufficient task analysis, and abuse existing non-mobile design
guidelines. it would have been cheaper for her to buy a newspaper and
throw away everything but the TV listings than to look up that
evening's BBC programs on her WAP phone. 


@@web 


z50\clip\2001\07\webgap.txt
Analysis: The Web's true digital divide 
By STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent

http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=203267

Internet marketing researcher comScore automatically collects 
complete Internet usage data

leaving aside domains specifically aimed at immigrants or Asians, the
most Asian-oriented general interest site is StreetRacing.org. Its
visitors are 25.1 percent Asian-Americans, even though Asians make up
only 4.6 percent of online Americans.  Other hot-rod Web sites with
audiences that are highly Asian include SuperCars.net, Acura.com and
OverBoost.com.

highly black-skewed domains include NBA.com, Bible.com,
FootLocker.com and child rappers' sites LilBowWow.com and
LilRomeo.com.  blacks make up the smallest share of the audience
include: LLBean.com (clothes for the Puritans' descendants, whether
genealogical or psychological); USGA.org (the blue-blooded United
States Golf Association); and CountryStars.com
the people with the least education 
seem to have the most fun on the Web.

ZapSpot.com, FunFlat.com, HaHaSoFunny.com, TiggysRibTicklers.com,
ReflectiveGreetings.com and BingoFun.com vs. most educated:
WestLaw.com, Lexis.com, and Martindale.com), a textbook publisher
(Reed-Elsevier.com), the Chronicle of Higher Education trade journal
(Chronicle.com), and a Chinese business portal (Sina.com).

Another 50% "Ethnic Group": 51% of Web Users Bachelors Or More
(That's equal to the highest ethnic groups, Indians, Chinese, Jews and
Gays) May 5, 1997 Business Week "A Census in Cyberspace" Education
27% High school or less, 32% Some College 23% College Grad 18% Post
Grad Age: 18-24 18% 25-29 14% 30-39 23% 40-49 26% 56-64 14$ 65+ 5%
Female 41% Male 59% 

Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:45:25 PST
\clip\97\11\webcens.txt BUSINESS WEEK/HARRIS POLL: A CENSUS IN
CYBERSPACE In 1997, 21% of adults use the web, 50% of computer users.
population is race. The Internet remains a medium dominated by whites,
who make up 85% of Internet and Web users, according to the Harris Poll.
Blacks and Hispanics each account for 6% of Net users--up just slightly
from a year ago. (Asians + Natam = 3%?)

@@Video watching

WSJ 1/29/2007

Harris Interactive Poll says 3/4 of online respondents have watched online
videos., 2,309 adults

85% 18-25
87% 25-29
over 50% older ages

Youtube
67% visited only once or a few times
24% frequently but less than 1 hour a week
9%  1 hour or more per week

Ever watched
42% Youtube
41% TV network
35% news site
25% Yahoo
24% Google
19% Myspace
7% ITunes
19% somewhere else
26% never watched an online video

complete reports wsj.com/reports

@@Video Games

Sony will be more than half of 44M units sold this year, 1/3 more than
game cube, 4 times Xbox according to analysts. Sea PI Sep 4, 2002

@@Window 32 bit

http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-32-bit-vista-memory-limits/
“4GB” maximum memory limit of 32-bit Windows is purely theoretical. In
practice, the max memory is something significantly less, equal to 4GB
minus your video card memory and the address space allocated to a
couple other hardware resourcse. Typically, the realistic maximum
memory is somewhere betwee 2.5GB and 3.5GB.
... However, 64-bit has it’s own problems because it lacks the full
backwards compatibility provided by 32-bit. You do have a choice, but
most people are still better off dealing with the limits of 32-bit
than using 64-bit–which is still “bleeding edge”, despite the fact
that it has been around for years now.
...on the upside, the 750MB of RAM you’re missing really wouldn’t have
made that much difference anyway.

@@VAX-11

VAX had 4G memory space, but user process was limited to 1G. By 2009,
common to buy high end PCs with 4G of memory, more than could be
addressed by win32.

The VAX virtual memory is divided into four sections, each of which is
one gigabyte[9] in size: For VMS, P0 was used for user process space,
P1 for process stack, S0 for the operating system, and S1 was
reserved.

The VAX 7000/10000 (introduced 1992) supported a maximum of 3.5 GB of
memory. This was a limitation of the VAX architecture, which had
32-bit addressing.


@@Wrist computer

z40\clipim\2000\04\19\swatch.efx Swatch leaps through time

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