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100
Invented the first modern type of mechanical computing machine
Who is Charles Babbage?
100
Method was used to feed instructions into early computing machines
What are Punch cards?
100
What does IBM stand for?
What is International Business Machines Corporation
100
Two founders of Microsoft Corporation
Who is Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
100
The first activity in America that spawned the need for a fast calculating machine?
What is The American Census?
200

Grace Hopper

Who created the COBOL programming language?

200
Name of the computer that correctly predicted the outcome of the 1952 American Presidential election?
What is UNIVAC?
200
The digital computer that had more vacuum tubes than any other computer ever made was the__________?
What is ENIAC (it had 18,000 vacuum tubes)
200

First person to use a monitor and keyboard to communicate with a computer

Who is Steve Wozniak?

200
The next significant event in world history that advanced the development of computing technology
What is The Space Race?
300

MS DOS

What is the operating system Bill Gates sold to IBM?

300
This computer company was founded in 1976 as one of the first personal computer companies on the market.
What is Apple?
300

Name of the 1st computer released by Apple in 1976?

What is Apple 1?

300
Developed the first "floppy disks" in 1971
Who is Alan Shugart (IBM)?
300

The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence

Who is Alan Turing?

400

Founders of Apple

Who are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne

400

method of storage for computers and were made from a flexible plastic coated in a magnetic material

What are Floppy Disks?

400

A very popular mini computer created by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970

What is the PDP-11?

400
Developed the World Wide Web
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
400

The oldest, most universal language for programming computer systems, developed in 1957 and still used today.

What is FORTRAN?
500
Blaise Pascal

Who invented the first "adding machine", the precursor to the modern calculator?

500
What was the name of the German cypher machine used in World War II?
What is The Enigma
500
When did the World-Wide Web enter the Internet scene?
What is 1991?
500
Considered the first woman programmer?
Who is Ada Lovelace?
500

27 tons

What is the weight of the ENAIC?