• the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?
• the 74181 chip (pictured) greatly simplified the development and manufacture of computers during the late 1960s and 1970s?
• the invention of the electronic digital computer was put into the public domain in 1973 by the decision of one of the longest federal court cases in the history of the United States?
• the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple?
• when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
• the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
• in modern India, the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of computers during the Ayudha Puja (pictured), as practised in the past for other implements?
• extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X?
• existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes?
• Woody Freeman, one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of Arkansas, claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account?
• David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?
• a fire-control system is a computer which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target(s)?
• 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?

Facts on topics related to Computer

Personal computer

• as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, Robert Spinrad oversaw development of such products as Ethernet, laser printers and "the first modern personal computer"?
• every person detained by the International Criminal Court has a personal computer in his cell?
• many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language, developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles?

Microprocessor

• CP1600 microprocessors saw little use in their intended role, but millions were produced for use in the Intellivision video game console (pictured)?
• the C-Leg microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?

Home computers

• BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes, and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s?