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Question | Answer |
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What was the First Medium-Sized Computer? | The Model 650. |
What calulates up to 10,000 calculations per second? | The Trasistor. |
This language had intuitive commands such as READ and WRITE. | Fortran. |
What is the most widely used high level programming language? | Cobol. |
What number system did the ABC computer use? | The Binary Number System. |
In 1961, Who developed the intergrated chip? | Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce. |
This was invented by Marcian Hoff in 1970. | Microproccesor. |
Who was the founder of Microsoft? | Bill Gates. |
What was the first microcomputer? | Altair. |
Who designed and built the first Apple Computer? | Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs. |
This computer was one of the first computers to use intergrated circuits. | IB SYSTEM 360. |
This is a large computer system that is usually used for multi - user applications. | Mainframes. |
This type of language is widely used today for Windows Programming. | Basic. |
A list of instructions written in a special language that the computer understands. | Program. |
This was originally a secret military project. | ENIAC. |
this computer contained hundreds of vacuum tubes. | ABC Computer. |
Computers we use today are..? | PCs. |
what is silicon wafers with intricate circuits etched into their surfaces and coated with a metallic oxide that fills in the etched circuit patterns?. | Intergrated Circuits. |
One IC could replace...? | hundreds of transistors. |
In 1957, John Backus and a team completed..? | a programming language. |
What computer stored numbers for calculations by electronically burning holes in sheets of paper? | ABC Computer. |
What was the accomplishment of the ENIAC? | Gave a problem that took a team of mathematicians three days to solve it - it took twenty seconds. |
The stored program was also known as the: | "Universal Machine". |
What is a large computer system that is usually used for multi-user applications? | Mainframes. |
Who was responsible for the microprocessor? | Marcian Hoff. |
Were did the stored program computer store the computer instructions? | CPU. |
What was the name of the first personal computer? | Altair. |