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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Thursday, July 25, 2024 12:43 PMCPT 101 Concepts Exam 1 Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
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: - ✔️✔️Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
When was BASIC introduced - ✔️✔️1964
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BASIC revolutionized... - ✔️✔️software industry
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
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