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Flashcards by David Hollingswo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by David Hollingswo
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| Question | Answer |
| First commercially available general-purpose electronic computer in the United Kingdom | Ferranti Mark 1 - February 1951 |
| First Fortran program successfully runs. | Invented at IBM by a group led by John Backus- September 1954 |
| Year the richest man according to Forbes born. | October 1955 - Bill gates |
| British Computer Society founded. | Founded October - 1957 |
| Xerox 914 - First Office Copier for sale | 1959 - "Clue printer company" |
| Rand Tablet | 1964 - Original cost $18,000, senses electrical pulses relayed through a fine grid of conductors housed beneath the drawing surface |
| Moore's Law coined | 1965 - Doubling of transistor density every year. |
| First cash depenser | 1967 - Customers were issued with paper vouchers which were inserted into the machine which retained the voucher, and dispensed a single £10 note. |
| Patent filed for DRAM | 1968 - Filed for by IBM and Invented by Robert Dennard |
| Arpanet | 1969 - First successful packet-switched wide area computer network |
| Unix | 1970 - Various Linux distributions are still based on it |
| First e-mail program | 1972 - SNDMSG |
| Ethernet | 1973 - clue IEEE 802.3 |
| Microsoft | 1975 - Company which sold the Basic programming language |
| Sinclair ZX80 | 1980 - Home computer for sale @ £99.95 |
| BBC Micro | 1981 - Used in UK school's to teach computer literacy. |
| Apple Lisa | 1983 - Potentially named after the co-founders daughter of the fruit company. |
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