Exam 14: The History of the Personal Computer

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

Charles Babbage designed the first automatic calculator in 1834.

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

Second-generation computers replaced tubes with transistors.

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

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

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

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

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

Grace Hopper coined the term computer bug when the Harvard Mark 1 malfunctioned when a moth flew into it.

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

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

________ was the first electronic spreadsheet application.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were the founders of ________.

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

BASIC was the first programming language ever developed.

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

The ________ was the first portable computer.