History Flashcards
Who made the pascalene?
Blaise Pascal
Who is the “Father of Computers”?
Charles Babbage
Who was the first programmer?
Ada Lovelace
Who was the inventor of a data processing industry(IBM)
Herman Hollerith
Who is the CEO of IBM?
Thomas Watson
What are vacuum tubes?
weak to strong current (first)
What are transistors?
weak to strong current, smaller than vacuum tubes (second)
Who invented the integrated circuit “chip”?
Jack Kilby
What is the purpose of microprocessors?
perform calculations and logic for the computer
Who invented the Mark 1?
Howard Aiken (first)
Who invented ABC?
Atanasoff/Berry (second)
Who invented Colossus?
Tommy Flowers (third)
Who invented ENIAC?
Eckert/Mauchly (fourth)
What was the UNIVAC 1?
first commercial computer
What was the first spreadsheet software for PC?
Visicalc
Who was the software leader of this time?
Lotus
Who invented structured programming?
Edsger Dijkstra
Who invented the Ethernet?
Bob Metcalf
Who invented Apple?
Steve Jobs
Who invented Microsoft?
Bill Gates
Who invented the internal PC hard drive?
Al Shugart
Who invented Linux?
Linus Torvalds
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee