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CGS 2100 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED LATEST UPDATE What was the first word processing application? - Answer- WordStar What other competitors entered the word processing market? - Answer- Word for MS-DOS and WordPerfect An important advancement that allowed users to interact ...

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CGS 2100 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED
LATEST UPDATE
What was the first word processing application? - Answer- WordStar

What other competitors entered the word processing market? - Answer- Word for MS-
DOS and WordPerfect

An important advancement that allowed users to interact with the computer more easily
- Answer- Graphical user interface (GUI)

Who was the real innovator of GUI? Which company took full commercial advantage of
it? - Answer- A photocopier company Apple

What company came up with Alto? - Answer- Xerox

Why did the Alto fail? - Answer- Included a word processor, mouse and could connect
to a network. Never sold it commercially. Developed Star Office System which was
based on the Alto but never became popular, asking $17,000.

Apple introduced? - Answer- Lisa. Included windows, drop-down menus, icons, file
systems. $9,995.

A year later, Apple introduced? - Answer- Macintosh. Used 3.5 in floppy disks with a
hard cover.

In 1993, the web browser - Answer- Mosaic was introduced. Browser allowed users to
view multimedia on the Web, causing Internet traffic to increase by nearly 350%

In 1995, Microsoft introduced.. - Answer- Internet Explorer. Integrated Web functionality
into Microsoft Office applications.

First Microsoft OS designed to be a principally a GUI OS, although it was still based on
DOS. - Answer- Windows 95

What was a predominant player in the browser software and moved to an open source
market? - Answer- Netscape

, What made computers popular? - Answer- Computer is a compilation of parts, each of
which is the result of individual inventions

First accurate mechanical calculator. Used in odometers in cars - Answer- Pascalene

Relied on stiff cards with punched holes to automate the weaving process. Punch-card
process would be adopted as a means for computers to record and read data - Answer-
Jacquard loom

First automatic calculator? - Answer- Analytical engine

Huge steam powered mechanical calculator that Babbage designed to print
astronomical tables. - Answer- Difference engine

The Analytical engine included? - Answer- components similar to those found in today's
computers, including store, mail, input/output

Who was the "father of computing" - Answer- Charles Babbage

Punched cards to tabulate census data. Automatically read the data, speeding up the
process - Answer- Hollerith Tabulating Machine

Hollerith started the Tabulating Machine Company which later changed its name to? -
Answer- IBM

First computer to include certain features that are integral to today's systems, such as a
control unit and separate memory functions - Answer- Z1


What was the first personal computer? - Answer- Altair 800 debuted in the 1975 cover
of Popular Electronics.

How much was the first computer? - Answer- $395 for a do-it yourself kit, or $498 for a
full assembly. ($2,000 dollars in todays economy)

How many bytes did the computer have? - Answer- 256 bytes. It DIDNT come with a
keyboard, monitor or printer

What did "hackers" do? - Answer- Hired by corporations to program routine financial,
statistical or engineering programs in a workplace environment.

Within 3 months with hackers in the system what happened to Altair's company? -
Answer- MITS the company behind Altair received 4,000 orders for the machine

What did Bill Gates & Paul Allen do? - Answer- among the first Altair owners and wrote
a compiling program that translates user commands into commands that the computer
can understand

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