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20 Cards in this Set
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_____ is a simple, fast, inexpensive computer that is easily connected to other equipment and responds quickly to outside signals.
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A Minicomputer
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There were small computers as early as the _____.
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1950s
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The CDC 1604 scientific computer was designed by _____.
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Seymour Cray
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_____ began as an instrument company, but it was the second-largest minicomputer maker by 1978.
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Hewlett-Packard
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HP tried, unsuccessfully, to buy mini-maker DEC. It instead bought ____.
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“Data Systems Inc.,”
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____ the PDP-8’s designer, was frustrated by DEC’s refusal to approve a family of 16-bit computers. So he and other DEC engineers launched Data General in 1968 and created their own 16-bit design.
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Edson de Castro
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____ and ____ founded SDS in 1961 to make scientific computers.
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Max Palevsky and Robert Beck
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The 1975 ____ came with software for applications like accounting.
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System/32
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Computer Automation, founded in 1967, created the ___ a cheap, easy-to-use, reliable computer.
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“Naked Mini,”
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The first _____ was created by Docutel, a manufacturer of automated baggage handling equipment.
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Automatic Teller Machine, or ATM
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When ___withdrew from the Multics project some researchers decided to create a similar but simpler system for smaller computers.
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Bell Labs
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Bell Labs freely licensed ____ which was easily ported to other computers and spread swiftly.
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Unix
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Programmer Jack Burness’s _____ simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon. It became popular.
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“Lunar Lander”
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Wang Laboratories was a successful ____.
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calculator company.
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Wang Laboratories was a successful ____ after it was a calculator company.
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word processor company.
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SEI Corporation proposed changing Bank trust departments bookkeepers to ____.
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desktop terminals
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The Canadian Chalk River Nuclear Lab approached ____ for a special device to monitor a reactor.
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Digital Equipment Corporation
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Minicomputers were ___ and ____enough to be used by one person, or dedicated to one task.
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small and cheap
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The 1973 Wang 2200 computer made Wang a successful ____ company as well as a calculator and word processing company.
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computer
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If there was no software available to run your particular assembly line, or perform your novel task, you ____.
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wrote your own.
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