Pre-Transistor
Dates/People
Misc 1
Calculator
Misc 2
100

We go from _____ to Vacuum Tubes.

Relay Switches

100

10/1969

Original design shown to the Japanese calculator company.

100

Why was the chip developed for the calculator named what it was named?

It replaced 4004 transistors.

100

___ hired Intel to make chips for their calculator design.

Busicom

100

_____ and _____ were the main semi-conductor manufacturers.

Fairchild and Shockley

200

We go from Vacuum Tubes to _____.

Transistors

200

2/1971

Working models delivered to the Japanese calculator company.

200

Intel chose not to make products.  They only made chips.  Why?

They did not want to compete with their own clients.

200

The original calculator design required _____ chips.

7

200

Two languages written by Gary Kildall

PL/M and CP/M

300

The ENIAC had ______ vacuum tubes.

17000

300

Late 1972

Kildall had written a basic program for the 4004.

300

The founders of Intel left ___________ to start the company.

Fairchild

300

Intel Engineers developed the ____ chip to replace all chips in the original design.

4004

300

CTC dropped Intel and went with _____

Texas Instruments.

400

What was one big problem with a tube based computer?

HEAT

400

1947

Transistor invented.

400

One of the big mainframe companies was?

IBM CDC Honeywell

400

______ and ______ developed the calculator chip for Intel.

Hoff      Faggin

400

Name one of the big "mini" computer companies.

DEC HP

500

The transistor was invented where?

Murray Hill NJ

500

Created the language to help a computer talk to a floppy drive.

Gary Kildall

500

Coined the phrase "bug in the machine" when a moth was found in a tube computer.

Rose Hopper

500

Why was Intel unable to market or use the chip designed for the calculator?

Busicom owned the rights to the chip.

500

What was the most popular mini computer? I showed you an ad for this.

PDP 8, PDP 11