History of PC

History of Computers Webquest 1 Name:________________

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The first commercial computer was called the ________________________ and the first unit was delivered in 1951 .
The ENAIC 1 computer made in 1946 by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly had ________________________ vacuum tubes.
___________________________ is credited with the creation of the first true integrated circuit in 1958. Integrated circuits in time replaced the vacuum tubes used in computers during the 1940's and 1950's.
In 1974 Radio Electronics magazine published an article by ________________________ which was about building a computer called the Mark-8.
The Mark-8 computer was based on the ________________________ microprocessor.
________________________ developed the Altair 8800 computer build it yourself kit and it was advertised in Popular Mechanics Magazine in 1975.
The Altair 8800 computer kit sold for the price of ________________________ in January of 1975.
________________________ and ________________________ founded Microsoft in 1975.
In 1976, two guys, ________________________ and ________________________ finished work on a computer called the Apple 1.
In 1979 ________________________ was one of the first commercial software programs to appear. It was a spreadsheet program written by a Harvard Business School student for the Apple II.
The program in question #10 was written by _____________________ .
In 1981, ________________________ , launched and sold their first personal computer for $1, 365.
____________________ Version 1.0 was introduced in 1981 as a text based as a single-tasking computer operating system.
____________________ was made available in 1985 as an extension of the MS-DOS operating system for personal computers.
The first type of 'internet' was called the ________________ .
The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in what year _______ ?
On March 22, 1993 Intel released the first ____________ Processors.
___________________ is the primary inventory of the World Wide Web and wrote the original web software himself.
America Online, the huge internet company with millions of subscribers, was co-founded by ___________________.
_________________ developed the COBOL computer language and created the first compiler.
Who founded Yahoo (2 people) _______________________ _______________________