IBM 360 TI’s Integrated Circuit Mini Era (1959-1970)

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Who perfected the prototype of the first commercial typewriter?

Herman Hollerith

William K. Jenne (correct)

Konrad Zuse

Dr. Julius Edgar Lilienfield

Which British computer was operational by the end of 1943 for codebreaking purposes?

Colossus (correct)

UNIVAC

ENIAC

EDVAC

Who developed the transistor in 1947?

Texas Instruments

IBM

Bell Telephone Laboratories (correct)

Fairchild Semiconductor

In which year did Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor announce the integrated circuit?

1959 Signup and view all the answers

Which computer, introduced in April 1964, became the standard institutional mainframe computer quickly?

IBM 360 Signup and view all the answers

Who completed the 1st general purpose programmable calculator in 1941?

Konrad Zuse Signup and view all the answers

In which year did the number of network hosts break 100,000?

1987 Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the World Wide Web?

Tem Berners-Lee Signup and view all the answers

What is the standard protocol for ARPANET established in 1982?

TCP/IP Signup and view all the answers

What was the growth rate of service traffic on the World Wide Web in 1993?

341,634% Signup and view all the answers

When was USENET established between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University?

1979 Signup and view all the answers

When was the MITS Altair 8800, hailed as the first 'personal' computer, featured in Popular Electronics?

January 1975 Signup and view all the answers

Which company developed the first spreadsheet program, Visicalc, in the spring of 1979?

Software Arts Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of the personal computer market did Apple capture by 1980?

50% Signup and view all the answers

In which year did the IBM PC get released?

1981 Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the basic ideas of the Internet in 1973?

Bob Kahn Signup and view all the answers

When did BBN open the first public packet-switched network, Telenet?

1974 Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated the program Sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe at MIT's Lincoln Labs in 1962?

Ivan Sutherland Signup and view all the answers

Which company was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce in 1968?

Intel Signup and view all the answers

In what year did Fairchild Semiconductor introduce a 256-bit RAM chip?

1970 Signup and view all the answers

Who designed the Mark-8 prototype featured in the July 1974 Radio Electronics?

A. Titus Signup and view all the answers

What was the first high-level programming language for the Intel Microprocessor developed by Gary Kildall?

PL/M Signup and view all the answers

When did Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start building and selling 'blue boxes' in Southern California?

1971 Signup and view all the answers

When were Arabic numerals introduced in Europe?

8th and 9th century A.D. Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with inventing logs in 1614 to aid in mathematical operations?

John Napier Signup and view all the answers

In which century did Wilhelm Schickard build a mechanical calculator with a 6-digit capacity?

17th century Signup and view all the answers

Who is believed to have built the first mechanical calculator around 1500?

Leonardo Da Vinci Signup and view all the answers

In what century did Joseph-Marie Jacquard invent an automatic loom controlled by punch cards?

19th century Signup and view all the answers

Which device, dated to the 1st century B.C., was used for registering and predicting the motion of stars and planets?

Antikythera mechanism Signup and view all the answers