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Famous People
Bill Gates
Miscellaneous
Steve Wozniak
Revolutionary Computers
100
In 1949, while speaking to an IBM sales meeting, predicted all moving parts in machines would be replaced by electronics within a decade
Who is Thomas Watson Jr.?
100
Bill Gates' partner at Microsoft until he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease and had to resign.
Who is Paul Allen?
100
The first person to write software in binary code.
Who is John von Neumann?
100
Wozniak was a member of this electronics club.
What is the Homebrew Computer Club?
100
______________________was built in Britain to help them read the German code by a young Polish man who described the process on how to break the Enigma code.
What is UNIVAC?
200
September 9, 1945, the first “bug” was recorded when a moth got stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II. This person also helped to develop COBOL programming language.
Who is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper?
200
The operating system that IBM designed so it could get rid of Microsoft's operating system, but that was not successful was called _________________________.
What is OS2?
200
In 1950, this was the first computer programmed with binary code that could store different programs on punch cards and did not require rewiring it to change functions as the others previously did.
What is EDVAC?
200
Where Wozniak worked.
What is Hewlett Packard?
200
In 1979, Steve Jobs saw the Alto and went back to have Steve Wozniak design the _____________________, which incorporated elements of the Alto and would be a personal computer.
What is the Apple II?
300
This person was a mathematical genius, who helped to break codes during World War II, developed the idea of a "universal machine “ in 1954 and died at 42.
Who is Alan Turing?
300
The name of the business Gates and his partner started in 1970/
What is Traf-O-Data?
300
The first electronic computer was called ENIAC. What did those letters stand for?
What is Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer?
300
What was Captain Crunch's real name?
What is John Draper?
300
Xerox created their first computer called the ______________and the personal computer version was called the Star.
What is the Alto?
400
This newscaster was there to report, on election night 1952, that CBS News borrowed UNIVAC to make a scientific prediction of the outcome of the race for the presidency between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. Public opinion was Stevenson but UNIVAC said Eisenhower.
Who is Walter Cronkite?
400
This man was the president of MITS and bought an operating system for the Altair 8800 that Microsoft bought from another source for $50,000.
Who is Ed Roberts?
400
Who designed the Ethernet method of network connection?
Who is Dr. Robert Metcalfe?
400
The first computer he made with a programming language was called the ________________________.
What is Apple II?
400
This computer, made in 1981 was an IBM-Intel-Microsoft joint venture; it was the first wide-selling personal computer used in business with a 8088 Microchip that had 29,000 transistors, a 4.77 Mhz processing speed, 256 K RAM (Random Access Memory) standard, and one or two floppy disk drives.
What is the IBM PC?
500
In 1984, this person wrote the book, "Neuromancer," and coined the term "cyberspace." Created a genre of fiction known as "cyberpunk" in his book, which described a dark, complex future filled with intelligent machines, computer viruses, and paranoia.
Who is William Gibson?
500
In 1994 Apple Computer sued Microsoft for this reason but lost
What is taking the GUI (graphical user interface) idea
500
EDVAC stands for ____________________________.
What is Electronic Discrete Variable Computer?
500
The year Apple was founded.
What is 1977?
500
In 1975, this company created a computer with 256 byte memory (not Kilobytes or Megabytes), 2 MHz Intel 8080 chips, which was just a box with flashing lights and it cost $395 for the kit or $495 assembled.
What is the Altair 8800?