HVAC COOLING LOAD CALCULATIONS AND PRINCIPLES. Sensible Heat Gain â is the energy added to the space by conduction, convection and/or radiation. Latent Heat Gain â is the energy added to the space when moisture is added to the space by means of vapor.
Rise of USB. Developed by a consortium of companies made up of Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, Sony, DEC, IBM, and Northern Telecom, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) was introduced in January 1996. At that time, the USB 1.0 standard was capable of delivering a transfer rate of 12 Mbit/s. In April of 2000, USB 2.0 was introduced with a transfer rate of 480 Mbit/s. More recently, the USB 3.0 standard reaches transfer rates of 4.8 Gbit/s.
The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released on April 1981 and developed by Adam Osborne. The Osborne I weighed 24.5 pounds, had a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4 floppy drives, ran the CP/M 2.2 operating system, included a modem, and cost US$1,795.uilt at the Victoria University of Manchester, the first version of the Mark 1 computer became operational in April 1949. Mark 1 was used to run a program to search for Mersenne primes for nine hours without error on June 16 and 17 that same year.