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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry what did they create?   ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer  
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What did the ABC consist of?   Contained hundreds of vacuum tubes  
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert what did they create ?   ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator  
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what was the purpose and accomplushment of the ENIAC ?   Purpose: To calculate the trajectory of artillery shells• Accomplishment: Given a problem that took a team of mathematicians three days to solve-it took 20 seconds  
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Alan Turing and John von Neumann what did they create?   The Stored Program Computer  
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what is a program?   A list of instructions written in a special language that the computer understands  
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What was another name for the Stored Program Computer?   Universal Machine  
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what is the CPU, EDVAC, EDSAV?   Central Processing Unit,Electronic Discrete Variable automatic Computer,Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer  
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Mauchly, Eckert, and von Neumann what did they create and build ?   EDVAC and EDSAC  
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Mauchly and Eckert what did they build ?   UNIVAX: Universal automatic Computer  
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what was a disadvantage of the first generation computers?   Many vacuum tubes, very expensive.  
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who invented the vaccume tubes ?   William DeForest  
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain of Bell Laboratories what did they create?   the transitor in 1947  
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what were the advantages and disadvantages of the Model 650   d- expensive, a- could handle alot of paperwork and smaller  
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what were punch card replaced by?   magnetic tape and high speed reel-to reel tape machines  
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1957, John Backus did what?   he and his team completed a programming language  
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what were the different types of programming languages?   Fortran, COBOL, Basic  
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Who developed Basic?   John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth University  
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who invented the integrated chip?   jack Kilby and Robert noyce  
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IBM System 360 what was it first to do ?   first computers to use integrated circuits  
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what was one of the first mainframes?   IBM system 360  
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who invented the Microprocessor   Marcian Hoff  
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what did building the microprocessor make possible to build?   the Microcomputer  
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what was the first microcomputer?   altair  
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who invented the first apple computer?   Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs  
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who was the founder of microsoft ?   bill gates  
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