According to this report, the BaBar database -- named after the elephant from children's stories -- has recently passed a milestone: more than 500 terabytes...
Just for your information, this database is the one from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Source: Brian Sullivan, Computerworld, Apr. 17, 2002
You will be able to bid for one Apple 1 system this weekend -- if you have enough money. Please remember that only 200 such systems were sold...
The auction is organized by the Vintage Computer Festival. You will find the details here.
Source: Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet (UK), Apr. 17, 2002
This Washington Post writer reports from Honduras, but the same story is true in many other countries. Internet cafes are used to give phone calls where phones are scarce and services are expensive.
I obviously can't check the numbers given here, but it seems that in Latin America alone, international long-distance revenues have fallen by more $500 million in four years. And it seems that a large part of this drop is due to Voice over IP traffic.
Source: Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post, Apr. 18, 2002
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