Exam 14: Technology In Action Complete: Appendix A

________ used the term PC to market its first personal computer.

Bell Telephone Laboratories invented the ________, which replaced the vacuum tube.

A major advancement in the Apple II was storing the operating system ________.

The Jacquard loom used holes punched in stiff ________ to make complex designs in fabric.

The first personal computer to come to the market in 1975 was the ________.

________ designed the Analytical Engine in 1834.

Each of the following are examples of Spreadsheet applications, EXCEPT ________.

Virtually All PCs with Intel chipsets ran ________ by the early 80s.

Grace Hopper gets credit for coining a common computing term by ________.

BASIC's main advantage over FORTRAN, COBAL and ALGOL was ________.

The ________ which was a huge steam-powered mechanical calculator that Babbage designed to print astronomical tables.

The ________ was the first computer to use magnetic tape instead of punch cards.

Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the Mark series of computers used by the U.S. Navy for ballistic and gunnery calculations.

VisiCalc was the first ________ application.

The ________ was the first portable computer.

Virtually all PCs (in the 1980s) running on the Intel chip used ________ as their operating system.

The Osborne was the first ________ computer.

Microsoft bundled its ________ browser in Windows 95.

Prior to the IBM PC, IBM primarily made ________.