Generation notes
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What number system did they use? | binary
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| How many tubes did ABC contain? | hundereds
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| How did ABC store numbers for calculations? | by electronically burning holes in sheets of paper
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| (Electronic discrete Variable automatic computer) | EDVAC
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| (electronic delay storage automatic computer) | EDSAC
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| Who built EDVAC and EDSAC | Mauchly, Eckert, and von Neumann
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| what was EDVAC and EDSAC designed to do? | Designed to solve many different problems by simply entering new instructions that were stored on paper tape
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| machine language | 0s and 1s
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| who built the UNIVAC | Mauchly and Eckert
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| disadvandage of 1st gen. computers | too many vacuums and too large
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| advantage of 1st gen. computers | the ability to perform up to 1000 calculations per second
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| model 650 advantages | SmallerCapable of handling a flood of paperwork
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| advantages to magnetic tape | ability to read (access) data quickly and reliablyability to write (store) data quickly and reliably
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| Types of Programming Languages | FORTRAN
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| FORTRAN commands | READ and WRITE
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| Third generation computers advantages | popular among businessessmaller sizeless expensive
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| who invented mircroprocessor | marcian hoff
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| who built the first apple computor | Stephen wozniak and Steven jobs
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| who was founder of microsoft | Bill gates
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| what kind of computors do we use today | PC
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