Mid-Twentieth-Century Computer Industry
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which company was acquired by Sperry Gyroscope and renamed Sperry Rand?
Burroughs
UNIVAC
IBM
Remington Rand
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which company transitioned from electromechanical accounting equipment to computers by buying out Computer Research Corporation?
UNIVAC
NCR
IBM
Remington Rand
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which company was founded by former Sperry Rand employees and produced high-performance computers for scientific applications?
Honeywell
Control Data Corporation
UNIVAC
IBM
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which companies were the remaining competitors of IBM in the computer industry?
UNIVAC and Control Data Corporation
Sperry Rand and Honeywell
Burroughs, NCR, and CDC
RCA, General Electric, and Honeywell
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What technological advancement replaced vacuum tubes in computers?
Magnetic Drums
Delay Lines
Microchips
Transistors
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who independently invented the microchip in the late 1950s?
Jack Kilby
Robert Noyce
John Bardeen
William Shockley
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the next innovation in memory technology after delay lines and Williams tubes?
Magnetic Drums
Core Memory
Punched Cards
Microchips
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