Section I
Who was the director of the 1890 census?
Robert Porter
How old were each of the members who proposed the ENI?
Mauchly - 35, Goldstein - 29, Eckert - 24
Who was in charge of the electromechanical analog system of Project Whirlwind?
Jay Forrester
Who developed BASIC?
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
What was the first typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard?
Sholes and Glidden typewriter
When was Samuel Morse's long-distance telegraph message sent?
May 24, 1844
Who was the lead engineer of the ENIAC project who was a "stickler for quality control"?
J. Presper Eckert
Which early computers used Williams Tubes?
IBM 701 and 702, Manchester Baby
How many users could Multics support?
25
Where was Project Whirlwind core memory developed?
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
Who created the ABC? (say their jobs/occupations as well)
Atanasoff - professor at Iowa State, Berry - Grad student at Iowa State
How many cabinets were in the ENIAC and how tall were they?
40, 8 ft tall
How long did it take for the FORTRAN compiler to be completed?
3 years
IBM marketed the Project Whirlwind technology as the _________ computer
IBM AN/FSQ-7
Where is a 1997 replica of the ABC located?
Durham Center, Iowa State University
What powered the shaft of the Mark I?
a 5-horsepower motor
What made calculating the trajectory of the shell difficult for making firing tables?
atmospheric drag
What was the storage capacity of IBM's first disk drive?
5MB
SAGE was spread across ___ sites
23
Where is the Computer History Museum located?
Mountain View, California
How long did it take for Thomas J. Watson Sr. to become president of C-T-R after joining?
3 years
Who were the 6 women who worked as the programmers of the ENIAC?
Frances Bilas Spence, Jean Bartik, Ruch, Lichterman Teitelbaum, Kathleen McNulty, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer
What business-oriented compiler language did Honeywell promote in response to FLOW-MATIC?
FACT
What computer was Dartmouth's BASIC timesharing system built around?
timesharing-customized General Electric 235 computer
What museum is the PDP-11 on exhibit at?
Vienna Technical Museum