What was the name of the first personal computer, and when was it created? correct answersThe Altair 8800 was created in 1975
How much was The Altair sold for? correct answers$395 kit
The Altair had no... correct answerskeyboard or monitor
The Altair was not... correct answersuser-friendly...
What was the name of the first personal computer, and when was it created? correct answersThe Altair
8800 was created in 1975
How much was The Altair sold for? correct answers$395 kit
The Altair had no... correct answerskeyboard or monitor
The Altair was not... correct answersuser-friendly
The Altair was marked as... correct answersthe start of personal computer boom
Who were the first owners of The Altair? correct answersBill Gates and Paul Allen
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote... correct answerscompiling program and sold to Altair
The price of The Altair was reasonable enough that... correct answerscomputer fanatics could finally own
their own computers
Despite The Altair's limitations, computer enthusiasts... correct answersflocked to the machine
Other early personal computers built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak include... correct answersthe
Apple I and Apple II.
The operating system of the Apple I and II were stored in... correct answersROM
Steve Jobs liked Wozniak's prototypes, so together, the two built... correct answersthe 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 answersin read-only
memory
Previously, the operating system had to be... correct answersrewritten every time the computer was
turned on
BASIC revolutionized... correct answerssoftware industry
BASIC was easily learned by... correct answersbeginning programmers
BASIC became key... correct answerslanguage for PC
BASIC led to... correct answerscreation of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen used BASIC to write... correct answerstheir program for the Altair
When was Microsoft MS-DOS developed? correct answers1980
Microsoft was an operating system for... correct answersIBM PCs
Microsoft was modified by... correct answersBill Gates
PCs using Intel chip used... correct answersMS-DOS
, In 1980 when IBM was entering the personal computer market, it approached Bill Gates at Microsoft to
write an... correct answersOS program for the IBM PC
Microsoft reconsidered the opportunity to write an OS program and developed... correct answersMS-
DOS for IBM computers
Eventually, virtually all PCs running on the Intel chip used... correct answersMS-DOS as their OS
Microsoft's reign as one of the dominant players in the... correct answerspersonal computer landscape
had begun
Other important advancements including... correct answersfloppy disk drives set off an explosion of
software applications
Because the floppy disk was a convenient way to distribute software... correct answersits inclusion in
personal computers set off an application software explosion
1978 WordStar: correct answersfirst word processing application
1980 WordPerfect: correct answersBest DOS-based word processor, was eventually sold to Novell and
later acquired by Corel
1983 Lotus 1-2-3: correct answersadded integrated charting, plotting, and database capabilities to
spreadsheet software
1983 Word for MS-DOS: correct answersintroduced in the pages of PC World magazine on the first
magazine-inserted demo disk
1985 Excel: correct answersone of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface
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