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Exam 14: Tif 1: the History of the Personal Computer

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________-generation computers used vacuum tubes.

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In the 1980s, nearly all PCs running on the Intel chip used ________ as their operating system.

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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the founders of ________.

Released in 1993, ________ was the first Internet web browser.

Data on the earliest personal computers were stored on ________.

Released in 1975, the ________ computer was the first personal computer.

Match each of the following names to their association:

The Tabulating Machine Company later changed its name to ________.

Second-generation computers replaced tubes with transistors.

The world's first integrated circuit was developed at Texas Instruments.

The Alto computer, built by ________, was the first to use a graphical user interface (GUI) .

What was the first word processing application to be used on personal computers?

Completed in 1951, the first commercially successful electronic digital computer was the ________.

One of the reasons the Apple II computer was popular was that ________.

Within a year of its introduction in 1981, the ________ computer dominated the personal computer market.

What programming language transformed the software industry because beginning students could learn it easily?

A compiler is a program that translates computer language instructions into English.

ENIAC was the first commercially successful electronic digital computer.

Computers that use ________ are referred to as third-generation computers.

The Intel Corporation introduced the ________, which was a chip that contained millions of transistors.