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Despite what others have told you, it is better for your computer to be shut down every night. Windows 95 and 98 particularly like to be restarted. Windows 2000 and XP are better designed to be on all the time... your system may still heat up and reduce the life of your hard drive if you leave it on all the time.
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The air defense system operated on the AN/FSQ-7 computer (known as Whirlwind II during its development at MIT) as its central computer. Each computer used a full megawatt of power to drive its 55,000 vacuum tubes, 175,000 diodes and 13,000 transistors.
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By outputting data onto a magnetic disk or tape, the computer is able to store data permanently and retrieve it when required. A system's size is based on how much disk storage it has. The more disk, the more data are immediately available.
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According to most estimates, 90% of legal evidence resides in computer systems, rather than on paper. In today’s digital world, computer forensic experts are crucial to the discovery of critical evidence that can make or break a case.
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