History of Computer Science Part 2

1962- Steve Russell at ______ invents Spacewar, the first computer game running on a DEC PDP-1.

• UCLA

• MIT

• CalTech

• Notre Dame

Steve Piner and L. Peter Deutsch produced the first “word processor” called Expensive _______________ (MIT's PDP-1 cost $100,000).

• Typewriter

• Keyboard

• Can opener

• Cart

1964 – The mouse and window concept

Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the worlds first “_________”, nicknamed after the “tail”.

• rat

• horse

• cat

• mouse

SRI (Stanford Research Institute) received a patent on the mouse in 1970, and licensed it to _________ for $40,000.

• Apple

• IBM

• Dell

• HP

1969- ARPANET- The precursor to the ____________ as we know it, funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency now DARPA) begins.

• telenet

• Internet

• telephone

• fax

1970 – Intel 1103 Dynamic Memory Chip

Worlds first _______________ available dynamic memory chip, 1024 bytes or 1KB.

• socially

• commercially

• business

• cheap

1971 – Intel 4004 Microprocessor

Worlds first _______________ with 2,300 transistors, had the same processing power as the 3,000 cubic-foot ENIAC.

• CPU

• Memory Unit

• machine

• microprocessor

1973-1976 – Ethernet

Robert Metcalfe at _________ invents Ethernet so that multiple computers can talk to a new laser printer. Originally, Ethernet used a large coaxial cable and ran at 3Mbit/sec.

• Xerox

• Kinko's

• Scanners

• Wifi

1974/1975 – Personal Computers

Scelbi Mark-8 Altair and IBM 5100 computers are first marketed to _____________ (as opposed to corporations).

• companies

• individuals

• churches

• coaches

1978/1979 – First individual productivity software

VisiCalc Spreadsheet software and WordStar word processor are the “_________applications” for personal computers, especially for small business owners.

• killer

• assassins

• weak

• bad