Computers Before The PC

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1. Which of these were NOT used to input data into computers? telegraph keys reel-to-reel tapes paper tapes with holes punched in them telephones

2. Tracy Kidder's 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Soul of a New Machine" was written about the development of which Massachusetts company's "super minicomputer" system? DEC's VAX Bell Labs' Unix IBM's S/360 Data General's MV/8000

3. Who was Grace Hopper? The person who gave IBM the nickname "Big Blue". The inventor of COBOL. Bill Gates's first secretary. The designer of the ENIAC computer.

4. What is "core"? power transformers memory the building the computer was housed in the center of the computer

5. Which of these programming languages was invented at Bell Labs? COBOL BASIC FORTRAN C

6. Which company's computers ran the Multics operating system? IBM Digital Equipment Compaq Honeywell

7. Xerox founded the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), but which company is best known for designing systems which used concepts developed there? IBM Prime Computer Apple Computer Sun Microsystems

8. Who manufactured the pdp series of processors? Sun Microsystems IBM Digital Equipment Co. Data General

9. For what machines were punch cards originally designed? computers weaving looms printing presses cash registers

10. No computer has been built which does not use transistors or integrated circuits. True False