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

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

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

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the founders of ________.

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

Second-generation computers replaced tubes with transistors.

The Tabulating Machine Company later changed its name to ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data on the earliest personal computers were stored on ________.

________-generation computers used vacuum tubes.

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

ENIAC was the first commercially successful electronic digital computer.

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