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| What was the first computer? | Atanasoff-Berry Computer(ABC Computer)
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| Name two advantages from the transistor. | Smaller, Less Expensive, Caclulating speeds up to 10,000 caclulations per second.
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| What was the first medium-sized computer? | Model 650
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| Name all three programming languages. | Fortran, Cobol, and Basic
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| What were two of the disadvantages from the first generation computers? | Many vacuum tubes, vacuum tubes were large, and very expensive
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| Name two other characteristics from the model 650. | It was a change in the way data was stored, more widely used by business people.
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| What are the advantages from magnetic tape? | Ability to read data quickly reliably, ability to write data quickly reliably.
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| The new high-level programming language were easier to use than? | Machine language
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| Who created the high-level programming languages? | John Backus and a team
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| What does Fortran stand for? | Formula Translator
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| What programming language had inuitive commands such as read and write? | Fortran
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| What is the most widely used high level programming language | Cobol
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| What does Cobol stand for? | Common Business Oriented Language
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| Who designed Cobol? | Grace Murray Hopper
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| What was the purpose for cobol language? | To provide a common language for use on all computers.
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| What does Basic language mean? | Beginner's all purpose symbolic instruction code.
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| Who created basic language? | John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
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| Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce created what? | The integrated chip
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| In 1964, this computer was one of the first computers to use integrated circuits. | IBM System 360
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| Who invented the Microprocessor? | Marcian Hoff in 1970
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| Who invented the vacuum tube? | William DeForest
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| What year were transistors made? | 1947
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| How big is an Integrated Chip? | .5" wide by 1.5" long
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| How many users are needed to use a mainframe? | Multi-users
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| Who developed the Cobol language? | The Department of Defense in 1959
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