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In 1980, the National Language Authority of Pakistan developed a new keyboard layout for typewriters based on Naskh script. The keyboard had 46 keys to type 71 Urdu consonants, vowels, diacritics, and punctuation marks, and 21 key symbols for arithmetic calculations and digits.
2012: Bankruptcy: Parallan Computer — United States: 1986: 1994: Exited the computer business: Parasitic Engineering — United States: 1976: 1983: Dissolution: Pencept — United States: 1980: Unknown: Unknown: Pertec Computer — United States: 1967: 1987: Acquired by Triumph-Adler: Philco — United States: 1954: 1961: Exited the ...
An example of a physical security measure: a metal lock on the back of a personal computer to prevent hardware tampering. Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer software, systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or ...
Texas Instruments sold its laptop business to Acer in 1997. Toshiba: Japan Dynabook, Libretto, Portégé, Satellite, Satellite Pro, Qosmio, T series, Tecra: Toshiba fully exited the personal computer and laptop business in June 2020, transferring the remaining 19.9 percent shares to Sharp Corporation, which now runs the business as Dynabook Inc ...
Indian cold wave during the winter months of 2012 killed at least 92 people across northern and eastern India. The drop in temperature had a devastating effect on the hundreds of thousands of homeless people in India. Most of the dead were homeless and elderly people, living in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Morris worm source code floppy diskette at the Computer History Museum. The term "worm" was first used in John Brunner's 1975 novel, The Shockwave Rider.In the novel, Nichlas Haflinger designs and sets off a data-gathering worm in an act of revenge against the powerful men who run a national electronic information web that induces mass conformity.
Another ATX addition was the +5 V SB (standby) rail for providing a small amount of standby power, even when the computer was nominally "off". When a computer is in ACPI S3 sleep mode, only +5 V SB rail is used. There are two basic differences between AT and ATX power supplies: the connectors that provide power to the motherboard, and the soft ...
The 2012 RBS computer system problems were technical issues affecting computers run by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (now NatWest Group), including National Westminster Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, which began on 19 June 2012. In 2014, RBS was fined £42m over the incident. [1]