Graves Personal Computer History
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| Who gave the "Mother of All Demos" video conference that showed off computers as tools for communication | Doug Englebart
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| What new things were shown during the "Mother of All Demos"? | The mouse, desktop publishing, e-mail, video conferencing, and hypertext
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| Who watched the "Mother of All Demos" video conference and made the Alto Personal Computer for their company? | Xerox engineers
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| What was the 4th generation of computer electronics? | The microprocessor
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| What was special about the microprocessor? | It combined the function of many integrated circuits onto one chip of silicon
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| What company first made a commercially successful personal computer? | Apple Computer
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| Who founded Apple Computer? | Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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| What company followed up Apple in making a successful personal computer? | IBM
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| What operating system (OS) did IBM-PCs eventually use? | MS-DOS
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| What company made MS-DOS? | Microsoft
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| Who started Microsoft? | Bill Gates and Paul Allen
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| Which company sold the first operating system with a GUI (graphic user interface), based on using a mouse? | Apple Computer
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| What was the first commercially successful personal computer (in 1984) to have a GUI? | The Apple Macintosh
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| What was Microsoft’s response to the Macintosh with its GUI? | Windows
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| What was the first successful computer with a finger touch–based input? | The iPod and iPhone
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| What was the 5th generation of computer electronics? | The multicore processor
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| What was special about the multicore processor? | It combined the functions of multiple microprocessors onto one chip of silicon
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| What is a GUI? | A Graphical User Interface is a system that lets a user control a device by using a pointing device with pictures on a screen.
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