August 7, 1970 held the first chess tournament between computers. The best computers with algorithms from research institutes come together in “the qualifying round”, then to fight in a chess game with a human.
The championship didn’t look like a bunch of Amateurs laptop or computer club sample of the 1990-ies — in those days, chess programs could handle only supercomputers the size of a room. They are, however, was originally designed for research in nuclear energy and other scientific calculations, but nobody was against to play on your work computer to match the most powerful computers in the world with the intellect of chess players.
Defeated in this battle, mahina authored supercomputer manufacturer Control Data Corporation. Look at the picture — it shows the later modification of the CDC 6600 (model CDC 6400 just no one bothered to take a picture in normal quality), which with its arithmetic logic unit and 10 peripheral processors have coped with only 1 million instructions (MIPS) per second. For comparison, a low-power netbook running at 3300 times faster.
To play with a human in chess a half-century ago was capable of only the most powerful computers in the world
Chess players, of course, laughed at dull computers, and did not consider their competitors. In 1968 chess master David levy made a bet that 10 years computers will not be able to beat him… and won the argument! However, in 1989, the computer Deep Thought, which was released by IBM, defeated the arrogant grandmaster.
But the most exciting chess game human-computer occurred in 1997 when the computer is authored by the same IBM outsmarted Kasparov won the game in 45 moves despite the fact that most of the time a superiority over the GM.
And all because the programmers didn’t think through to the end and when the computer started to lose, he “malfunctions” and made a spontaneous move figure, which baffled the best chess player in the world. Kasparov began to look for a catch in the actions of the machine, which let my guard down and almost immediately lost her party.
7 Aug 1955, there appeared the first pocket radios Sony. However, the “pocket” — it says loudly: although electronic vacuum tubes and was the most compact option for the electronics of the time for the debut of the model TR-55 the Japanese made the participants of the advertising campaign clothes with enlarged pockets.
But then a young company such pranks were forgivable: huge smartphones are now seen as absurd, and we all forgive them. What is more important — the receivers of the company Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (company executives did not immediately come up with concise names Sony) is serious raised the prestige of Japanese electronics. Because in those years the Japanese electronics provoked the same skepticism as today, say, the Indian gadgets.
Transistor radio TR-55
Representatives of Sony have decided not to stop there and already in 1960 began production of transistor TV sets, and after three years to start production of the legendary VCRs. Really cool handheld device came from the pen of the Japanese in 1979, when the Walkman player.
August 7, 2006 , Samsung released a smartphone with a record amount of memory is 8 GB on the internal storage. In the days when memory card is “not Mature enough” to such results, the Korean brand was forced to use in the model i310 hard drive.
Samsung i310
Externally, the smartphone is slightly different from the “dialer” Samsung, but from a technical point of view, he was very good — apart from the above mentioned memory he was able to boast a powerful Intel XScale PXA272 with 416 MHz (in the era of mass osmeteria he is not impressive, but 9 years ago it was really cool iron) and 64MB of RAM. By the way, is available 8 gigabytes is not the limit — the smartphone support Micro SD card (not microSDHC, but still), so add another 2-4 GB of problems was not.
Inside the smartphone nest latest at the time Windows Mobile 5.0 and a 2-inch display with a resolution of 320×240 pixels was as clear as ASUS ZenFone 4, for example.
As published later Nokia N91 with 8GB memory, Samsung’s flagship was a very expensive model and is rarely found in retail. But given that in 2006 the possibility of low-cost Symbian smartphones (Nokia 3250, remember?) had impressed the Russians, tricked out model of the Samsung looked cool even against gluttony and slowness of the hard drives of the time.
Samsung i300 and Nokia N91 with 4 GB of memory was just a warm-up before a real confrontation between Samsung and Nokia