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CPT 101 CONCEPTS EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS 2024.
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CPT 101 CONCEPTS EXAM 1QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS 2024.
What was the name of the first personal computer, and when was it created? - ANSWER-The Altair 8800 was created in 1975
How much was The Altair sold for? - ANSWER-$395 kit
The Altair had no... - ANSWER-keyboard or monitor
The Altair was not... - ANSWER-user-friendly
The Altair was marked as... - ANSWER-the start of personal computer boom
Who were the first owners of The Altair? - ANSWER-Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote... - ANSWER-compiling program and sold to Altair
The price of The Altair was reasonable enough that... - ANSWER-computer fanatics could finally own their own computers
Despite The Altair's limitations, computer enthusiasts... - ANSWER-flocked to the machine
Other early personal computers built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak include... - ANSWER-the Apple I and Apple II.
The operating system of the Apple I and II were stored in... - ANSWER-ROM
Steve Jobs liked Wozniak's prototypes, so together, the two built... - ANSWER-the Apple
I and formed the Apple Computer Company in 1976. The Apple II was born a year later.
One of its biggest innovations was that the operating system was stored... - ANSWER-in read-only memory
Previously, the operating system had to be... - ANSWER-rewritten every time the computer was turned on
BASIC: - ANSWER-Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
When was BASIC introduced - ANSWER-1964 BASIC revolutionized... - ANSWER-software industry
BASIC was easily learned by... - ANSWER-beginning programmers
BASIC became key... - ANSWER-language for PC
BASIC led to... - ANSWER-creation of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen used BASIC to write... - ANSWER-their program for the Altair
When was Microsoft MS-DOS developed? - ANSWER-1980
Microsoft was an operating system for... - ANSWER-IBM PCs
Microsoft was modified by... - ANSWER-Bill Gates
PCs using Intel chip used... - ANSWER-MS-DOS
In 1980 when IBM was entering the personal computer market, it approached Bill Gates
at Microsoft to write an... - ANSWER-OS program for the IBM PC
Microsoft reconsidered the opportunity to write an OS program and developed... - ANSWER-MS-DOS for IBM computers
Eventually, virtually all PCs running on the Intel chip used... - ANSWER-MS-DOS as their OS
Microsoft's reign as one of the dominant players in the... - ANSWER-personal computer landscape had begun
Other important advancements including... - ANSWER-floppy disk drives set off an explosion of software applications
Because the floppy disk was a convenient way to distribute software... - ANSWER-its inclusion in personal computers set off an application software explosion
1978 VisiCalc: - ANSWER-first electronic spreadsheet application
1978 WordStar: - ANSWER-first word processing application
1980 WordPerfect: - ANSWER-Best DOS-based word processor, was eventually sold to Novell and later acquired by Corel
1983 Lotus 1-2-3: - ANSWER-added integrated charting, plotting, and database capabilities to spreadsheet software
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