WorksheetsTech Boom pt 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What gets etched onto silicon to make it a microchip?
Transistors
Codes
Hieroglyphics
Smiley Faces
What do microchips control the flow of?
Electrical Currents
Data Transfer
My rhymes
The Internet
What does controlling the flow of electrical currents allow microchips to do?
Store and Remember zillions of bits of info
Connect to the Internet
Act as insulators for NASA ships
Afford living in SF
Select all of the places that made up Silicon Valley in the 80's:
HP
SRI
Xerox Park
Stanford University
What 2 cultures mixed in Silicon Valley at this time?
Engineers with PhD's
Hobbyists
Black Panthers
Foodie Culture
Which 4 guys led the way in the personal computer (PC) industry?
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Paul Allen
Bill Gates
Travis Scott
Where did Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first reveal their personal computer?
Homebrew Computer Club
Stanford's Engineer Convention
Apple Con 1.0
On TV with a commercial
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak planned to cause a revolution with their personal computer:
True
False
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first created their personal computer for:
Big Businesses
Themselves
Schools & Universities
Artists
What about the counterculture people of the Bay caused the Tech Boom to happen?
They thought outside of the box
They were fighting for people's rights
They were acting hella extra
They all had engineering PhD's
Why did Jobs and Wozniak have to create their own personal computer?
They couldn't afford to buy one
The other ones of the time sucked
No one had ever heard of a computer before
They didn't know how to code
What was each partner of Apple's primary strength?
Jobs was the marketing genius
Woz was the technical genius
Woz was the marketing genius
Jobs was the technical genius
What is RAM?
Random Access Memory
Repeated Apple Members
Really Awkward Moms
Respiratory Asipirator Modulation
The first personal computers were user-friendly:
True
False
Which statement is true about Apple's sales in their first 5 years?
They grew from $100,000 to $100 million
They shrank from $100 million to $100,000
They stayed consistent with their sales
They sold more oranges than Apples
In the early 80's, when people thought of computers, they thought of Apple's personal computer:
True
False
What were the top 3 personal computer companies?
Radio Shack
Apple
Commodore
HP
IBM
What was the major technology corporation at this time?
IBM
Apple
Sony
Xerox Park
Android
What changed about the idea of personal computers in the 80's?
They were now something that could sit on a desk
They became connected to the internet for the first time
They became as large as a room and processed faster than ever
They became ocular implants with no physical mainframe
What happened as a result of Jobs and Woz unveiling their first personal computer?
They caused a sensation
Nobody cared about it
Only big companies were able to buy them
Jobs and Woz went bankrupt
