History Flashcards by Alexa Raley | Brainscape

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Who made the pascalene?

A

Blaise Pascal

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Who is the “Father of Computers”?

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Charles Babbage

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Who was the first programmer?

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Ada Lovelace

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Who was the inventor of a data processing industry(IBM)

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Herman Hollerith

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Who is the CEO of IBM?

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Thomas Watson

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What are vacuum tubes?

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weak to strong current (first)

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What are transistors?

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weak to strong current, smaller than vacuum tubes (second)

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Who invented the integrated circuit “chip”?

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Jack Kilby

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What is the purpose of microprocessors?

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perform calculations and logic for the computer

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Who invented the Mark 1?

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Howard Aiken (first)

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Who invented ABC?

A

Atanasoff/Berry (second)

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Who invented Colossus?

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Tommy Flowers (third)

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Who invented ENIAC?

A

Eckert/Mauchly (fourth)

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What was the UNIVAC 1?

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first commercial computer

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What was the first spreadsheet software for PC?

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Visicalc

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Who was the software leader of this time?

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Lotus

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Who invented structured programming?

A

Edsger Dijkstra

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Who invented the Ethernet?

A

Bob Metcalf

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Who invented Apple?

A

Steve Jobs

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Who invented Microsoft?

A

Bill Gates

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Who invented the internal PC hard drive?

A

Al Shugart

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Who invented Linux?

A

Linus Torvalds

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Who invented the World Wide Web?

A

Tim Berners-Lee