Random Facts #3 · 6:21pm Feb 4th, 2017
Texas Instruments has a near-monopoly on graphing calculators.
Microsoft was founded in the pool room of a hotel.
The earliest portable computers were known as "luggables", due to their size and weight. They were practically just desktops with a carrying handle and screen.
Note to self: create rival company to Texas Instruments and steal all of their business just because I can.
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1) TI operates in 35 different countries.
2) Microsoft Company named the street their companies on to One Microsoft Way.
3) Luggables were also called Lunchboxes, Portable Workstations or Portable PC.
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4409319 You should start your own random facts series!
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4409476 I will at some point
4409477 scratch random facts, I'm doing what the national day is.
4410064 ok
Interesting.
4410516 yup
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These are fun.
4414994 yup
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:)