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The Dog Ate My... CPU!?
We all know that dogs love the taste of homework (or so we would be led to believe), but you would have thought an Intel Core i5 750 CPU would be less appetizing. We now know of at least one dog out there who seems to enjoy the taste of silicon, as tacohunter52, one of our review staff, recently found out. After leaving said CPU in a dog friendly location (at ground level), it proceeded to find its way in his dog's mouth, where she gave it a good chewing before it was eventually recovered.
"My dog found it and decided to start eating it. She managed to get the heat spreader off, as well as to bend the poor CPU in the process."
You can see the results in the included pictures. Fortunately the reason the CPU was left laying around for the dog to get hold of was a recent unfortunate demise. I imagine he will be making a note to keep any live CPUs well out of the way in future, should his four legged friend have acquired something of a taste for hardware. You can share your thoughts on this story in our forums, and if you have had any pet related hardware incidents yourself, I'm sure we would love to hear about those as well.
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Altair 8800 Inventor Ed Roberts Passed Away
Ed Roberts passed away yesterday at the age of 68. Mr. Roberts designed the Altair 8800, a machine many credit as being the first personal computer. Roberts established Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which introduced the Altair in 1975. The Altair was featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January 1975 where it came to the attention of a young man named Paul Allen who then showed it to his friend Bill Gates. The duo contacted Roberts at MITS in Albuquerque, NM and offered to create a version of the BASIC programming language for the machine. Gates and Allen set up a company then called Micro-Soft with its first office in Albuquerque to work on the programming language.
"Ed was willing to take a chance on us -- two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace -- and we have always been grateful to him."
"The day our first untested software worked on his Altair was the start of a lot of great things. We will always have many fond memories of working with Ed in Albuquerque, in the MITS office right on Route 66."
"He was an intense man with a great sense of humor, and he always cared deeply about the people who worked for him, including us," Gates and Allen said.
Mr. Roberts left the computer business in the 1970s, selling MITS and moving to Georgia where he studied medicine and eventually became a country doctor.
The Altair 8800 was sold in kit form for $395 and could also be purchased assembled for $495. Based on an Intel 8080 2 MHz processor, the computer came with 256 bytes RAM standard and lacked any form of input or output other than the eight toggle switches whose setting were indicated by a set of flashing lights on the front panel. On a personal note, I have fond memories of sitting in front of one these machines, setting the toggle switches individually to program each line of code as an engineer read them off. We were using the machine in the late 70s to program EPROMS used to control PDP11 mini-computers prior to the advent of user-friendly UIs.
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Google Acquires Facebook
What happens when you take two companies poised to take over the world and make them one? Looks like we may find out soon enough. In a surprise announcement, Google has purchased Facebook for an undisclosed amount. Apparently the two sides have been in talks for the past month and finally reached an agreement, signing last night.
"Facebook is a leader in social networking," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling social networking service to users, content owners and advertisers."
Details of the deal are still unknown, but Schmidt did say that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, will still remain in charge of Facebook's overall direction and development. How this is going to affect Facebook users will remain to be seen.
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Intel Purchases OCC for $20 Million
A deal was just finalized to sell our beloved OverclockersClub.com to Intel for $20 million. Stacy J. Smith, Chief Financial Officer for Intel, leaked the news earlier today over a few cocktails. When our beloved site administrator bosco (Dave) was reached for comment, he said that he would take home 25% of the sale price ... and then he woke up.
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