What was the name of the first personal computer, and when was it created? - The Altair 8800 was
created in 1975
How much was The Altair sold for? - $395 kit
The Altair had no... - keyboard or monitor
The Altair was not... - user-friendly
The Altair was marked as... - the start of personal computer boom
Who were the first owners of The Altair? - Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote... - compiling program and sold to Altair
The price of The Altair was reasonable enough that... - computer fanatics could finally own their own
computers
Despite The Altair's limitations, computer enthusiasts... - flocked to the machine
Other early personal computers built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak include... - the Apple I and Apple
II.
The operating system of the Apple I and II were stored in... - ROM
Steve Jobs liked Wozniak's prototypes, so together, the two built... - 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... - in read-only memory
Previously, the operating system had to be... - rewritten every time the computer was turned on
BASIC was easily learned by... - beginning programmers
BASIC became key... - language for PC
BASIC led to... - creation of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen used BASIC to write... - their program for the Altair
When was Microsoft MS-DOS developed? - 1980
Microsoft was an operating system for... - IBM PCs
Microsoft was modified by... - Bill Gates
PCs using Intel chip used... - MS-DOS
In 1980 when IBM was entering the personal computer market, it approached Bill Gates at Microsoft to
write an... - OS program for the IBM PC
, Microsoft reconsidered the opportunity to write an OS program and developed... - MS-DOS for IBM
computers
Eventually, virtually all PCs running on the Intel chip used... - MS-DOS as their OS
Microsoft's reign as one of the dominant players in the... - personal computer landscape had begun
Other important advancements including... - floppy disk drives set off an explosion of software
applications
Because the floppy disk was a convenient way to distribute software... - its inclusion in personal
computers set off an application software explosion
1978 VisiCalc: - first electronic spreadsheet application
1978 WordStar: - first word processing application
1980 WordPerfect: - Best DOS-based word processor, was eventually sold to Novell and later acquired
by Corel
1983 Lotus 1-2-3: - added integrated charting, plotting, and database capabilities to spreadsheet
software
1983 Word for MS-DOS: - introduced in the pages of PC World magazine on the first magazine-inserted
demo disk
1985 Excel: - one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface
1985 PageMaker: - the first desktop publishing software
GUI (graphical user interface) allowed... - easier interaction with the computer
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