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Did you know ...

• 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?