Section 1
Who sent the first long-distance telegraph message?
Samuel Morse
Which type of memory did the EDSAC have?
Mercury-Delay Line
A teletype machine combines what?
Keyboard and Printer
What does GNU stand for?
GNU's not Unix
Which Kernel did GNU's creator's use before adopting Linux?
HURD
What is the central question of the entscheidungsproblem?
Hilbert's entscheidungsproblem asked if it was possible to create an algorithm that can prove any statement true or false
Which company developed the floppy disk?
IBM
The abbreviation PDP is short for what?
“Programmed Data Processor.”
Before Mosaic was developed, which system did previous web browsers mostly support?
Unix
How many rotations per minute was IMB's first disk drive able to complete?
1200 RPM
Modern computers are the descendants of electromechanical computing devices developed where?
The United States
Which firms were part of the merger that formed Unisys?
Sperry Rand and Burroughs
Which programming language did Dennis Ritchie create?
Bonus 200 points: Why did he create it?
C, he created it to run on Unix
What ended the dot-com bubble? (2 events)
9-11 Terrorist Attack, 2000 Presidential Election
Which university did Micheal Dell attend?
University of Texas-Austin
What mechanical device did Dorr E. Felt create?
Comptometer
In which order were the EDVAC, EDSAC, and Manchester Baby completed?
Manchester Baby, EDSAC, EDVAC
How much memory did the original Macintosh have?
128 kilobytes
On which trendy topic did Satoshi Nakamota publish a paper in 2008?
Bitcoin and the Blockchain
Early Nokia phones used what operating system?
Symbian
In 1911, Thomas Watson, Sr. was fired from what company?
National Cash Register
Who wrote the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC?
John von Neumann
Which object-oriented programming language did PARC develop?
Smalltalk
What purpose does a hash serve in the blockchain?
Verifies the contents of a transaction based on the entry.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturing