Computers Before The PC

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1. Which of these were NOT used to input data into computers? paper tapes with holes punched in them telegraph keys reel-to-reel tapes 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? Bell Labs' Unix DEC's VAX Data General's MV/8000 IBM's S/360

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

4. What is "core"? memory the building the computer was housed in power transformers 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? IBM Sun Microsystems Data General Digital Equipment Co.

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