Deck 14: Tif 1: the History of the Personal Computer

Question 1

Data on the earliest personal computers were stored on ________.

Answer 1

audiocassettes

Question 2

________ was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

Answer 2

Microsoft

Question 3

Completed in 1951, the first commercially successful electronic digital computer was the ________.

A) Turing Machine
B) UNIVAC
C) Z1
D) ENIAC

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Introduced in 1983, the ________ was the first successful personal computer that used a graphical user interface (GUI).

Question 5

________ was the first electronic spreadsheet application.

Question 6

Which company approached Bill Gates to write an operating system program for its computer?

A) Microsoft
B) Xerox
C) IBM
D) UNIVAC

Question 7

In the 1980s, nearly all PCs running on the Intel chip used ________ as their operating system.

Question 8

Prior to the 1980s, IBM built and sold primarily ________ computers to large corporations.

Question 9

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the founders of ________.

Question 10

The Alto computer, built by ________, was the first to use a graphical user interface (GUI).

A) Apple
B) Microsoft
C) Xerox
D) IBM

Question 11

One of the reasons the Apple II computer was popular was that ________.

A) it had a mouse input device
B) the operating system was stored in ROM
C) it had a hard drive
D) it was inexpensive

Question 12

The CP/M, which stands for ________, was the first operating system designed for the Intel 8080 chip, the processor for PCs.

Question 13

WYSIWYG stands for ________.

Question 14

What was the first word processing application to be used on personal computers?

A) WordPerfect
B) WordStar
C) Microsoft Word
D) Quattro-Pro

Question 15

Released in 1975, the ________ computer was the first personal computer.

A) Altair
B) TRS-80
C) Apple II
D) Commodore PET

Question 16

Introduced in the late 1970s, which of the following allowed users to interact more easily with the computer?

A) Word processing software
B) The graphical user interface (GUI)
C) The operating system
D) ROM

Question 17

What programming language transformed the software industry because beginning students could learn it easily?

A) APL
B) FORTRAN
C) RPG
D) BASIC

Question 18

The ________ was the first portable computer.

A) Osborne
B) IBM PC
C) Apple Macintosh
D) Intel

Question 19

Released in 1993, ________ was the first Internet web browser.

A) Internet Explorer
B) Mosaic
C) Safari
D) Chrome

Question 20

Within a year of its introduction in 1981, the ________ computer dominated the personal computer market.

Question 21

Released in 1984, the Apple Macintosh was the first computer that used 3.5-inch floppy disks.

Question 22

Second-generation computers replaced tubes with transistors.

Question 23

The Intel Corporation introduced the ________, which was a chip that contained millions of transistors.

Question 24

The Z1 is thought to be the first computer to include features such as a control unit and separate memory functions.

Question 25

Computers that use ________ are referred to as third-generation computers.

Question 26

The Turing Machine was a computer that entered the market immediately after the IBM PC.

Question 27

Computers that used integrated circuits are referred to as third-generation computers.

Question 28

The Tabulating Machine Company later changed its name to ________.

Question 29

DOS stands for ________.

Question 30

ENIAC was the first commercially successful electronic digital computer.

Question 31

The world's first integrated circuit was developed at Texas Instruments.

Question 32

BASIC was the first programming language ever developed.

Question 33

________-generation computers used vacuum tubes.

Question 34

A compiler is a program that translates computer language instructions into English.

Question 35

Charles Babbage designed the first automatic calculator in 1834.