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What does ABC stand for   Atansoff and Berry Computer  
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What does ENIAC stand for and what was it used for   Elctronic Numerical Integration and Calculator and to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells  
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Who was the transistor made by   William Shockley John Bardeen and Walter Brittain of Bell Laboratories  
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What are the three kinds of languages for a computer   fortran, cobol, and basic  
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What was Model 650   The first Medium sized computer which was expensive and made in the early 1960's  
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What are some advantages of The Second Generation Computers.   They are smaller, less expensive and they calculate speeds up to 10,000 times per second  
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What does edvac stand for   Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer  
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What does Edsac stand for   Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer  
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what does univac stand for   universal Automatic Computer  
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Who was the inventor of the univac   Mauchly and Eckert  
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Who was it first sold to   the U.S. Bureau in 1951  
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Disadvantage of model 650   Expensive  
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What is another advantage of second generation computers   they can handle a flood of paperwork  
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What is the IBM 360   one of the first systems to use integrated circuits  
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Advantages of IBM   Popular amoung business, less expnesive, Smaller size  
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who invented microprocessor   Marcian hoff  
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advantage of microprocessor   it can fit on a desk  
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Who found microsoft   Bill gates  
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what was the first microprocessor   Altair  
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Who invented and designed the first apple computer   Stephen Wozniak, Stephen Jobs  
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who could afford the first generation computers   rich people  
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the stored program was know as the   univac  
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list three types of programming languages   fortran basic cobol  
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what was the major contribution to the second genertaion   the transistor  
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what replaced transistors   ic  
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