Answer the following questions from the web site http://www.ed2go.com/demo/l1-7.html

Lesson One.

1. How were calls placed by AT&T’s customers routed in 1940?
2. What did AT&T’s engineers realize they would have to do in order to meet the future needs of customers?
3. What are the mealloids?
4. What are semiconductors?
5. What invention did Bardeen and Brattain demonstrate on December 23, 1947?
6. What were some advantages of transistors?
7. What was Kelly’s invention?
8. What did it do?
9. Who joined together to develop a computerized guidance system?
10. What common thing did integrated circuits and vacuum-tube based circuits have?
11. What is a microprocessor and who created it?
12. What made the 4004 machine noteworthy?
13. What is a program?
14. Why was the 4004 attractive to the U.S. space scientists?
15. Why did Don Lancaster use the 8008 for?
16. What was the Altair?
17. What happened in 1975?
18. What were microcomputers?
19. What is an operating system and who created the first one and when?
20. What did Kildall’s invention do for microcomputer makers?
21. Who created Microsoft?
22. What is BASIC?
23. Who created APPLE?
24. Discuss what happened between Kildall and the IBM representatives?
25. What was QDOS?
26. What did Bill Gates do to QDOS?
27. What is MS-DOS?
28. What happened in 1981?
29. What are commands and were users expected to do with commands?
30. What does GUI represent?
31. What are icons?
32. What does wysiwyg mean?
33. To whom did the Macintosh/Apple appeal?
34. What is meant by IBM-compatible?
35. What was Bill Gates purpose in creating Windows 1.0?
36. Click on the supplementary tab and explore the Charles Babbage Institute.