CPT 101 Concepts Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Updated
What was the name of the first personal computer, and when was it created? - Correct Answer-The Altair 8800 was created in 1975
How much was The Altair sold for? - Correct Answer-$395 kit
The Altair had no... - Correct Answer-
keyboard or monitor
The Altair was not... - Correct Answer-user-
friendly
The Altair was marked as... - Correct Answer-
the start of personal computer boom
Who were the first owners of The Altair? - Correct Answer-Bill Gates and Paul Allen Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote... - Correct Answer-compiling program and sold to Altair
The price of The Altair was reasonable enough that... - Correct Answer-computer fanatics could finally own their own computers
Despite The Altair's limitations, computer enthusiasts... - Correct Answer-flocked to the machine
Other early personal computers built by Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak include... - Correct Answer-the Apple I and Apple II.
The operating system of the Apple I and II were stored in... - Correct Answer-ROM
Steve Jobs liked Wozniak's prototypes, so together, the two built... - Correct 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... - Correct Answer-in read-only memory
Previously, the operating system had to be... -
Correct Answer-rewritten every time the computer was turned on
BASIC: - Correct Answer-Beginner's All-
Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
When was BASIC introduced - Correct Answer-1964
BASIC revolutionized... - Correct Answer-
software industry
BASIC was easily learned by... - Correct Answer-beginning programmers
BASIC became key... - Correct Answer-
language for PC
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