Question Set 3 Answer the following questions: 1. Blaise Pascal is famous for his mechanical adding machine. Who created a more powerful, lesser known "calculator" 20 years previous? 2. What year was the "programmable" loom invented? 3. Between what years is now regarded as the first generation of computers? What components were they built with? 4. The chairman of IBM is famous for a particular quote. What is it? 5. What generally describes a second generation computer? 6. What year was LOGO developed? 7. When was the RS-232 serial interface standard made? 8. When was Apple Computer, ltd. founded? 9. When was the CD first invented? 10. What was the name of the IBM made computer to first beat a World Chess Champion? 11. What are your predictions about the future of computers? |