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| What is the ABC? | Antasoff-Berry Computer
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| What was the EDVAC and EDSAC made to do? | Solve problems by entering new instuctions that are stored on paper tape
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| What did UNIVAC stand for? | Universal Automatic Computer
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| What was one disadvantage of first genertation computers? | Many vacum tubes
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| When was the transistor made and by who? | Made in 1947 and by William Schockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittian of Bell Laboratories
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| What was the ENIAC? | Electric integration and calcular
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| Who created the ENIAC? | John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
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| What was the only advantage of first generation computers? | The ability to perform 1,000 calculations per second
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| What were the advantages of second generation computers? | Smaller and able to handle a flood of paperwork
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| What was an advantage of magnetic tape? | Ability to read data quickly and reliable
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| Who completed the high level programming language in 1957? | John Backus and a team of programmers
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| What is the most highly used programming language? | COBOL
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| What does BASIC language stand for? | Beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code
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| What did BASIC evolve to? | Visual basic
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| What was the first computer to use integrated circuits? | IBM system 360
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| What is a main frame? | A large computer system used for muti-user applications
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| What computer was the first mainframe? | IBM 360
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| Marcian Hoff invented what in 1970? | Microprocesser
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| What was the first microcomputer? | Altair, built in 1975
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| Who is the founder of Microsoft? | Bill Gates
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| Who created the stored program computer? | Alan Turing and John von Neuman
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| What was the calculating speed of second generation computers? | 10,000 per second
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| What does FORTRAN stand for? | FORmula TRANslator
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| How many transmitors could one IC replace? | Hundreds
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| What was one advantage of the IBM System 360? | It was smaller
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