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Before the 1960s, what was computer science focused on?
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In the early years, before 1960, it was all about the hardware and designing and building computers that would run reliably for more than a few hours
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The British government funded the work of _________ in the mid 1800s to develop advanced computational machines
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Babbage
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Who was credited with the idea of programming a computer?
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Ada Lovelace
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True or False: With the right amount of time, anything can be computed.
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False, several mathematicians, including Church and Turing, showed that certain things could be computed, while others couldn’t
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What was the significance of the invention of the transistor in the late 1950s?
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Resulted in transistor based computers and solved the hardware reliability issues, so people were no longer as interested in hardware.
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What is considered the first commercial success?
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IBM 704, which was designed in the mid 1950s
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How did the PC come to be?
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In the early 1980s IBM developed the PC, they contracted a very small company called Microsoft to develop the software for the PC
They thought the PC would never amount to anything, so they gave the rights to the PC software to Microsoft |
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What is the smallest unit of information?
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a bit.
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What possible values can a bit hold?
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0 or 1
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what are the four boolean operations?
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AND
OR XOR NOT |
