Pre-Transistor
We go from _____ to Vacuum Tubes.
Relay Switches
10/1969
Original design shown to the Japanese calculator company.
Why was the chip developed for the calculator named what it was named?
It replaced 4004 transistors.
___ hired Intel to make chips for their calculator design.
Busicom
_____ and _____ were the main semi-conductor manufacturers.
Fairchild and Shockley
We go from Vacuum Tubes to _____.
Transistors
2/1971
Working models delivered to the Japanese calculator company.
Intel chose not to make products. They only made chips. Why?
They did not want to compete with their own clients.
The original calculator design required _____ chips.
7
Two languages written by Gary Kildall
PL/M and CP/M
The ENIAC had ______ vacuum tubes.
17000
Late 1972
Kildall had written a basic program for the 4004.
The founders of Intel left ___________ to start the company.
Fairchild
Intel Engineers developed the ____ chip to replace all chips in the original design.
4004
CTC dropped Intel and went with _____
Texas Instruments.
What was one big problem with a tube based computer?
HEAT
1947
Transistor invented.
One of the big mainframe companies was?
IBM CDC Honeywell
______ and ______ developed the calculator chip for Intel.
Hoff Faggin
Name one of the big "mini" computer companies.
DEC HP
The transistor was invented where?
Murray Hill NJ
Created the language to help a computer talk to a floppy drive.
Gary Kildall
Coined the phrase "bug in the machine" when a moth was found in a tube computer.
Rose Hopper
Why was Intel unable to market or use the chip designed for the calculator?
Busicom owned the rights to the chip.
What was the most popular mini computer? I showed you an ad for this.
PDP 8, PDP 11