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1. Which was NOT a feature of the Altair 8800?

   1.   ?    256 bytes of memory
   2.   ?    programming adjusted by toggle switches
   3.   ?    washing machine
   4.   ?    flashing lights output
   5.   ?    trackball

2. According to this site, In what year was the first vacuum-tube programmable logic calculator developed?

   1.   ?    1975
   2.   ?    1943
   3.   ?    1995
   4.   ?    2000

3. In what year did FORTRAN become commercially available?

   1.   ?    1957
   2.   ?    1465
   3.   ?    1982
   4.   ?    1976

4. Who developed the Harvard Mark I in the late 1930's?

   1.   ?    Konrad Zuse
   2.   ?    Jack Kilby
   3.   ?    Howard Aiken
   4.   ?    Daniel Bricklin

5. What did Konrad Zuse create as a fully functional general-purpose binary computer?

   1.   ?    Z3
   2.   ?    RAM
   3.   ?    Marvel
   4.   ?    EDVAC

6. Who developed the EDSAC - "a 3,000 tube stored-program computer"?

   1.   ?    Charles Babbage
   2.   ?    Marie Jacquard
   3.   ?    Maurice Wilkes
   4.   ?    Blaise Pascal

7. What was the main component of many of the earliest digital machines?

   1.   ?    car engines
   2.   ?    light fixtures
   3.   ?    silicon chips
   4.   ?    vacuum tubes

8. Which system was said to be able to perform almost 2,000 calculations per second?

   1.   ?    EDVAC
   2.   ?    UNISAC
   3.   ?    ENIAC
   4.   ?    UNIVAC

9. Which was NOT mentioned in the article as a "High-Level Programming Language"?

   1.   ?    COBOL
   2.   ?    SAGE
   3.   ?    FORTRAN
   4.   ?    BASIC

10. Which company developed the SABRE, an airline reservation system, in the 1950s and 1960s?

    1.   ?    IBM
    2.   ?    EDVAC
    3.   ?    DEC
    4.   ?    Apple

11. In what year did was the first PC (personal computer) introduced by IBM?

    1.   ?    1971
    2.   ?    1983
    3.   ?    1981
    4.   ?    1965

12. What company came out of the project to was develop a software to allow the microprocessor to be programmed in BASIC, created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen?

    1.   ?    IBM
    2.   ?    Apple
    3.   ?    Microsoft
    4.   ?    Mark

13. What computer was the first product developed by Bill Gates made to run on?

    1.   ?    SAGE
    2.   ?    Altair
    3.   ?    UNIVAC
    4.   ?    COBOL