| A | B |
|---|
| Analytical Engine | Charles Babbage |
| Cost of Lisa | 9995.00 |
| Census Machine | Herman Hollerith |
| Mark 1 | Howard Aikin |
| Where Apple created | Los Altos, California |
| On What date did the Baby run it’s first program? | June 21, 1948 |
| Who wrote the first program for the baby? | Tom Kilbun along with F.C (Freddie) Williams |
| What did the first portable computer weigh? | 55 pounds |
| What was the first computer "bug"? | moth |
| What does NSL stand for? | On Line System |
| What company did Steve Wozniak co-found? | Apple |
| What was the Colossus computer created to decode? | encrypted German messages |
| How much did the ENIAC weight | 30 tons |
| What was Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine designed to compute? | polynomials, logarithmic and trigonometric functions |
| What does the acronym, UNIVAC, stand for? | Universal Automatic Computer |
| Who invented the slide rule? | William Oughtred |
| What was the name of the adding machine built by Blaise Pascal? | pascaline |
| Who invented the “Stepped Reckoner”? | Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz |
| What did Joseph-Marie Jacquard invent? | weaving loom |
| What name was given to the corporation formed when Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company | IBM |
| What does the acronym, eniac, stand for? | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer |
| What is the name of the ancient counting device used thousands of years ago, that is still used in some parts of the world today? | abacus |
| What is the probable origin of the decimal numbering system? | Arabic number system based on 10 fingers and toes |
| Who founded Apple computer? | Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak |
| Who was Howard Aiken? | Invented Mark I |
| What famous woman was highly instrumental in the development of many early programming languages and compilers, and who worked for the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company? | Grace Hopper |
| The digital computer that had more vacuum tubes than any other computer ever made? | ENAIC |
| What does IBM stand for? | International Business Machines corp. |
| What pre-1940 computer was nicknamed “The Baby?” | Small Scale Experimental Machine |
| The Internet grew out of A project originally funded by the U.S. Government Agency. What project is it? | ARPANet |
| The Internet grew out of A project originally funded by the U.S. Government Agency. What government agency? | US Department of Defense |
| MS DOS came mostly from an earlier program called “QDOS” what does QDOS stand for? | Quick and dirty operating system |
| This man designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. | Charles Babbage |
| Who founded Microsoft Corporation? | Microsoft was found in the year 1975 by two men who’s names are Bill Gates and Paul Allen. |
| What does “BASIC” stand for? | Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| In a Computer, what does CPU stand for? | central processing unit |
| Are often made of this common substance, which is a semiconductor material. . . . | silicon |
