Exam 14: The History of the Personal Computer

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

ENIAC was the first commercially successful electronic digital computer.

Data on the earliest personal computers were stored on ________.

The Turing Machine was a computer that entered the commercial market.

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

The UNIVAC was the first computer to use ________ for data storage

Computers that used integrated circuits are referred to as third-generation computers.

WYSIWYG stands for ________.

Introduced in 1983, the ________ was the first successful personal computer that used a graphical user interface (GUI).

Prior to the 1980s, IBM built and sold primarily ________ computers to large corporations.

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

Released in 1984, the Apple Macintosh was the first computer that used 3.5-inch floppy disks.

The Tabulating Machine Company later changed its name to ________.

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

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

________-generation computers used vacuum tubes.

________ was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

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

DOS stands for ________.