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| What was the first electronic computer called? | The ABC computer. (Atanasoff Berry-Computer)
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| What does ENAIC stand for? | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator
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| What computer replaced vacuum tubes with magnetic tape? | The model 650
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| What are the three high level programming languages called? | FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC
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| When was the transistor created? | 1947
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| Invented in 1961, what could replace hundreds of transistors? | Integrated Circuits
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| Who invented the Integrated Circuit? | Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
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| What is a mainframe? | This is a large computer system that is usually used for multi-user applications
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| What was the IBM 360? | One of the first computers to use a mainframe, it was popular among business, smaller size, and less expensive.
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| who invented the microprocessor? | Marcian Hoff
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| When was the microprocessor invented? | 1970
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| When was the first microcomputer built? And what was called? | 1975, Altair
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| Who designed the first Apple computer? | Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs
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| Which first generation computer started out as a military project? | ENAIC
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| what is a CPU? | Central Processing Unit
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| Who built the UNIVAC? | John Maulchy and J. Presper Eckert
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| What was the "Universal Machine"? | The stored program computer
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| What was the Integrated chip also known as? | the chip
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| Who invented the vacuum tube? | William DeForest
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| How many calculaions per second could the Second Generation computer do? | 10,000
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| what were some characteristics of the ENAIC? | they were small and contained vacuum tubes
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| What did the stored program eliminate? | The manual process of switching the wires?
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| Where did the stored program computer store computer instructions? | CPU
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| What does PC stand for? | Personal Computer
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| Who designed COBOL? | Grace Murray Hopper
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