Chapter 1
These people were some of the first calculators.
Who are women?
QWERTY the most commonly used keyboard layout had a purpose at one point but many people get "stuck" on the answer why.
What is to prevent the keys from getting stuck?
Awkward and disheveled is he but in his mind held the key for all of our modern computing.
Who is Alan Turing?
This addition to IBM's 1401 system was four times faster than anything else on the market.
What is the chain printer?
This was the first practical stored-program computer and was designed at Cambridge University.
What is the EDSAC?
You don't eat off of it because these items were used for large-scale information processing.
What are Logarithmic Tables?
This company was the top office machine supplier in 1928.
What is Remmington Rand?
One won the war the other finished it.
What are radar and the atomic bomb?
If you took an airplane flight in the 1970s this real-time reservation system would likely be used to book your reservation.
This language of positives and negatives is the basis for being able to communicate with machines.
What is Binary?
This "house" was used for check processing and inspired Charles Babbage by being able to see a well laid out division of labor.
What is the banker's clearinghouse?
With a last name like a popular cheap beer, this man was president Roosevelt's chief scientific advisor during world war 2.
Who is Vannevar Busch.
Evolution not revolution was a major slogan for this company.
What is IBM
Project whirlwind laid the groundwork for this plant named system.
This acronym has seven letters and was the first successful programming language.
What is FORTRAN?
Charles Babbage put many years of his life into this marvelous contribution to computing.
What is the Difference Engine
This master of sales tactics and motivation thought Thomas Watson everything he knows.
Who is John H. Patterson?
The Univac knew before everyone else that this president was going to win the election in a landslide.
Who is Dwight D. Esienhower?
This company largely developed the barcode technology that is used in every store across the country.
What is IBM
This simple to understand programming language was comforting to many administrators due to its easy to read English terminology.
What is COBOL?
CTRC laid the groundwork for this technological behemoth.
What is IBM
Howard H. Aiken was instrumental in the completion of this large scale computing device.
What is the Harvard Mark 1
The alphabet will be necessary for success, this device was very much modest.
What is the Atanasoff Berry Computer?
These companies were the seven dwarves of computing.
what are the Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, General Electric, and RCA?
The programmer stereotype stems from this emotion.
What is Jealousy?