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