IBM used all of these marketing strategies to increase their dominance in the computer industry except:

selling computers below cost to gain market share

The COBOL language became the standard for business-oriented programs because

the US government mandated that all computers it purchased would use COBOL

The computations that Herman Goldstine was trying to solve that led him to fund development of the ENIAC computer was

firing tables for ground artillary

Core memory was different from previous memory technology in that it

offered Random Access Memory (RAM)

John Von Neumann influenced the development of computers mostly by

publishing papers that proposed new ideas in computer design

The "Manchester Baby" is famous for

being the world's first stored-program computer

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1
The UNIVAC computer was built for
The IRS (Internal Revenue Service)
The US Treasury
The US Navy
The US Census Bureau
2
IBM used all of these marketing strategies to increase their dominance in the computer industry except:
selling computers below cost to gain market share
selling multipurpopse computers for both business and science applications
creating a family of computers that could all run the same programs
offering discounts to universities who offered programming classes
3
The designer of the FORTRAN programming language was
Jack Kilby
John Backus
Grace Hopper
Robert Noyce
4
Mauchly's graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, and later business partner, was
Herman Goldstine
J Presper Eckert
Robert Noyce
John Backus
5
The COBOL language became the standard for business-oriented programs because
IBM exclusively supported COBOL
it was well suited for artificial intelligence programs
it did not incorporate English words, increasing popularity internationally
the US government mandated that all computers it purchased would use COBOL
6
IBM's competitors were known as the...
BATCH
CORE
CLUB
BUNCH
7
The computations that Herman Goldstine was trying to solve that led him to fund development of the ENIAC computer was
decoding enemy messages
targeting of bombs dropped from airplanes
the blast radius of atomic weapons
firing tables for ground artillary
8
Grace Hopper was a proponent of increasing progammers productivity in these ways EXCEPT:
high level programming languages
binary object code
subroutines
compilers
9
According to "Brooks Law," adding manpower to a late software project...
does not decrease the time to completion
decreases product quality
can only decrease the time to completion by half
makes the project later
10
Core memory was different from previous memory technology in that it
offered Random Access Memory (RAM)
could be read as a "0" or "1"
needed power to retain its contents
Used magnetic materials
11
The six women credited as being the first computer programmers worked on a computer called:
UNIVAC
EDVAC
BINAC
ENIAC
12
Who is credited with inventing the integrated circuit
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
Jack Kilby & Sperry Rand
Sperry Rand, Fred Brooks & Robert Noyce
Fred Brooks & Jack Kilby
13
Who did not serve in the military, or work on government projects?
John von Neumann
Fred Brooks
Hermann Goldstine
Grace Hopper
14
John Von Neumann influenced the development of computers mostly by
publishing papers that proposed new ideas in computer design
developing commercial uses for computers
designing the COBOL language
championing the use of transistors
15
The "Manchester Baby" is famous for
being extremely powerful despite its small size
being one of the first multi-purpose computers
being the world's first stored-program computer
introducing the use of transistors in computers

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