Random Facts #85 · 4:03am May 8th, 2017
Busicon was one of the earliest companies to use Intel CPUs. For what, you may wonder? Calculators. Because that's what an "affordable" computer at that time essentially was.
The headphone jack/audio jack has existed in some form or another for over half a century.
An early form of non-mechanaical data storage for laptops was called "Bubble Memory" due to how it operates internally.
In the 1980s, it was perfectly normal to upgrade a computer by physically replacing several chips on the motherboard. These days most upgrades involve replacing the CPU or adding in some form of card.
Windows NT and all modern versions of Windows from Windows XP and on are actually direct descendants of the OS/2 Operating System developed by IBM and Microsoft. The two disagreed on the future of the OS, and took their parts of the OS and moves on separately.