Archive for the 'Computers' Category

The New iPad is This Good

Published on March 12, 2012 in 2010s, Apple, Commercials, Computers and USA.

The iPad (announced as The new iPad, colloquially known as iPad 3 or iPad HD) is the third and current generation of the iPad, a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the device at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 7, 2012.

[Apple Inc. was] established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was named Apple Computer, Inc. for its first 30 years.

A tablet computer, or a tablet, is a mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen rather than using a physical keyboard.

The vertebrate retina (from Latin rēte, meaning “net”) is a light-sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye.

Doctor Who Meets His Match Thanks To Prime Computer

Published on January 30, 2012 in 1980s, Australia, Computers, Funny and UK.

Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. The alternative spellings “PR1ME” and “PR1ME Computer” were used as brand names or logos by the company. A series of memorable advertisements from 1980 featured actors Tom Baker and Lalla Ward as their characters from the TV series Doctor Who.

[The Fourth Doctor] was portrayed by Tom Baker for seven consecutive seasons (from December 28, 1974 (Part One of Robot) to March 21, 1981 (Part 4 of Logopolis), and remains the longest-lived incarnation of the Doctor in the show’s on-screen history, counting both the classic and modern series.

Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Time Lady from the planet Gallifrey, she is a companion to the Fourth Doctor.

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord, a time-travelling, humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior appears as a blue police box from 1963 London, when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, he faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help people, and right wrongs.

Say Hello to the Most Amazing iPhone Yet

Published on October 24, 2011 in 2010s, Apple, Cell Phones, Commercials, Computers, USA and iPhone.

The iPhone 4S is a touchscreen slate smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is the fifth generation of the iPhone, a device that combines a widescreen iPod with a touchscreen, mobile phone, and internet communicator.

Siri is a personal assistant application for iOS. The application uses natural language processing to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to an expanding set of web services.

A flat tire is a deflated pneumatic tire, which can cause the rim of the wheel to ride on the tire tread or the ground potentially resulting in loss of control of the vehicle or irreparable damage to the tire and wheel. The most common cause of a flat tire is the puncturing of the tire by a sharp object, such as a nail, thereby letting air escape.

Although the necktie is more prominent in today’s society, being seen at business meetings, formal functions, schools, and sometimes even at home, the bow tie is making a comeback with fun-formal events such as dinner, cocktail parties and nights out on the town.

Unless You Buy An Apple II Plus, You Could End Up With A Lemon

Published on May 24, 2011 in 1980s, Apple, Celebrities, Commercials, Computers, Fruit, Funny and USA.

The Apple II Plus (stylised as Apple ][ ) was the second model of the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer, Inc. It was sold new from June 1979 to December 1982. [It] had a total of 48 KB of RAM, expandable to 64 KB by means of the Language Card, an expansion card that could be installed in the computer’s slot 0.

The idiom comparing apples and oranges, refers to the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate that a false analogy has been made between two items, such as where an apple is faulted for not being a good orange.

Richard Alva “Dick” Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.

Steve Hayden is a well-known figure in the field of advertising. Under Hayden’s leadership, Apple hired New York hipster talk show personality Dick Cavett as a spokesman and put Apple commercials on mass-audience television programming.

Isn’t the IBM Thinkpad 701c Incredible?

Published on March 29, 2011 in 1990s, Commercials, Computers and IKEA.

The TrackWrite, also known as the butterfly keyboard, is a foldout laptop computer keyboard designed by John Karidis for IBM as part of the ThinkPad 701 series, released in 1995. It allowed the 701 series to be both compact (when closed) and comfortable to use (when open), despite being just 24.6 cm (9.7 in) wide with a 26.4 cm (10.4 in) VGA LCD. The 701 was the top selling laptop of 1995, however, as later laptop models featured progressively larger screens, the need for a folding keyboard was eliminated. Consequently, no model but the 701 used the butterfly keyboard.

ThinkPad is a brand of laptop computers originally designed, manufactured and sold by IBM that are known for their boxy black design, which was originally modeled after a traditional Japanese lunchbox. Since early 2005, the ThinkPad range has been manufactured and marketed by Lenovo, who purchased the IBM personal computer division.

Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television personality, author, screenwriter and musician.

John Cleese doesn’t need the new Compaq Portable 286, he has Bruno

Published on June 23, 2009 in 1980s, Commercials, Computers, Funny, IBM, Intel, John Cleese and USA.

Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. The Compaq Portable was one of the progenitors of today’s laptop; some called it a “suitcase computer” for its size and the look of its case

The Intel 80286, introduced on February 1, 1982 was an x86 16-bit microprocessor with 134,000 transistors. It was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor. It was widely used in IBM PC compatible computers during the mid 1980s to early 1990s.

[John] Cleese was educated at St Peter’s Preparatory School, Weston-super-Mare where he was a star pupil, receiving a prize for English and doing well at sports including cricket and boxing.