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Computers Percent US Households DOC: NTIA : Census
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Number of U.S. Computers Accessing the Internet Via Mobile Broadband Soars 154 Percent in 2007, comScore 3/5/2008
Households with Computer and Internet Access: 1984-2003, Computer and Internet Use in the United States : 2003, US Census (October 2005) http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf
A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age, Department of Commerce p. 4 (Sept. 2004)
PC Sales Worldwide, www.etforecasts.com
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| US PC Sales |
10 |
21 |
46 |
44 |
50 |
59 |
| US PC Installed Base |
51 |
93 |
152 |
175 |
201 |
240 |
| Worldwide PC Sales |
24 |
70 |
129 |
132 |
161 |
216 |
| Worldwide Installed Base |
100 |
232 |
516 |
589 |
757 |
1071 |
PC Sales Hot For 2004, But Will Soon Cool Off, CRN 9/29/2004
U.S. Household PC Growth and Penetration (citing Jupiter)
PC Households
2001 71.1 m 67%
2002 74.1 m 69%
ITU, Internet indicators: Hosts, Users and Number of PCs 2001 | 2002 | 2003
Residential Broadband Forecasts, Technology Futures (2002) U.S. PC and Online Households-TFI 2002 Forecast
PC and Use Trends The Harris Poll® #18, April 17, 2002 Internet Penetration at 66% of Adults (137 Million) Nationwide
Consumer Internet Adoption Rate Slows Mimicking Patterns of Past Technologies WSJ, 16 July 2001, p. B1. By JULIA ANGWIN ("63% of homes in the U.S. own a computer")
US Census, Report - Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000 (P23-207)
The ancient Library of Alexandria contained approximately 700,000 scrolls, roughly equivalent to 100-125,000 printed books today.
Apollo Mission: "The LM and CM had identical computers on board, each the size of a shoe box. Each contained a total storage capacity of 36K of 14-bit words. This means total storage was roughly equal to the 64K bytes of a Commodore-64 computer. The LM's computer had a "memory cycle time" of 11.7 micro-seconds. However, virtually all cpu operations required atleast 2 clock cycles making the effective memory cycle time 23.4 micro-seconds, i.e., it effectively ran at only about 43 kHz (0.043 MHz)!" My Fascinating Interview with Allan Klumpp, the Principal Designer of the LM Computer Descent Guidance Software by Stanley R. Mohler, Jr. Dec '94; The Apollo Flight Journal This article first appeared in Spaceflight magazine, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society, in Vol. 16, No.10, October 1974 (pp. 378-382); M.I.T. - Apollo Guidance Computer; Apollo Operations Handbook, GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM (G&N), Basic Date: 12 November 1966, URL:
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Apple II : 64k memory; 4k ram chips CPU MOStek 6502 1 MHz No Hard Drive, Floppy Drive was optional. The Apple Museum. Apple History. Computer History Museum.
TRS 80 I: Price: $600; CPU Zilog Z-80; Memory: 4K standard expandable up to 48 K. sold 3000 units in a year. . Computer Closet Collection
First IBM PC: IBM 5150 Market release Fall 1981. Retailed $2880. 64 KBytes RAM; a single-sided 160K 5.25" floppy drive, CPU 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor . That had been preceded by the 1975 IBM 5100 but the 5100 cost $15,000. The History of the IBM PC - International Business Machines
XBox CPU 733 MHz Intel Custom Pentium III RAM Front Side Bus 133 MHz - 1.0 GB/sec Micron 64 MB DDR SDRAM Storage Medium 8 GB Hard Disk XBReporter.com ; VNUnet Preview: Microsoft's X-box unleashed
IPOD Storage Capacity 2003: 40Gig or 10,000 songs
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