Women in Tech
___ were the largest trained technical workforce of the computing industry during the second world war and through to the mid-sixties
Women
Atari 2600 was made by the first professional female video game designer and programmer
True
VHS stands for
Video Home System
Ada Lovelace was called the prophet of the computer age
True
Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn a Master's of Science in ______ from MIT
Electrical engineering
The Nintendo Gameboy was released in America before it was released in Japan in 1989
False, it was released in Japan first
The _____ 660 was the first 600 camera with autofocus
Polaroid
The most popular computer in the 80's was
The IBM PC
Annie Easley developed and implemented the code that led to the development of the ____ used in hybrid cars
Batteries
Jumpman
The Epson Elf was the world's first handheld ____ with a liquid crystal color display
TV
In the 1940’s, women were referred to as _______
Calculators or Computers
The paths which allowed NASA’s spacecrafts and astronauts to orbit Earth and land on the Moon would not have been possible if it weren’t for?
Katherine Johnson
The first 3D game to receive a commercial release was Atari’s
Battlezone
The original Sony Walkman was a
Portable cassette player
Harvard Mark 1 was a room-sized relay-based ____ that ran 50 feet long
Calculator
In 1984, ____ of computer-science majors were women; at the time coding was a considered a rote skill – like typing – and considered more suited to women
37%
When the Nintendo Entertainment System debuted, how many games did it come out with
17
The first cell phone (or phones that do not use a landline) debuted in
1988
This woman is known to be the first person to ever have a Personal Computer (PC) in their home
Mary Allen Wilkes