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