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17 Cards in this Set
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What generation used Vacuum Tubes?
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First Generation
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What generation used transistors?
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Second Generation
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What generation used Integrated circuits?
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Third generation
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What is a small chip containing thousands of transistors?
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A Intergrated circuit
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Who invented the integrated circuit?
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Jack Kilby
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Who devised away to use layered circuits?
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Robert Noyce
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who created Mark-1
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Howard Aiken
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Who was used Mark-1 and what did they use it for used for?
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The Navy used it for ballistics calculations
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what does ENIAC stand for?
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
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Who developed ENIAC?
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J. Presper Eckert, and John Mauchly
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What was considered to be the first general purpose computer?
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ENIAC
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What does TRADIC stand for?
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Transistor Digital Computer
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Who developed TRADIC?
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Developers in Bell labs
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What was the first transistorized computer that replaced vacuum tubes with 800 transistors?
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TRADIC
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what does EDVAC stand for?
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Electronic discrete variable Automatic Computer
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Who created EDVAC?
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Eckert, Mauchly, Von Neumann, and others
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What was the first general purpose computer to use binary arithmetic and to use the stored concept?
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EDVAC
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