CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Wordperfect, Blaise Pascal, Vacuum Tube

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Cis 1200 quiz 1-tech in focus 1 note. 1975-altair 8800, first pc: 1976-apple i, 1977-apple ii, has a colour monitor, sound, and game paddles, rom. Radio shack trs-80-for us consumers: 1981-osborne, portable computer with 5inch screen and 24. 5 pounds. Ibm pc-adopted fast b/c companies knew ibm mainframes well. 1964-basic (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code); easy language causing quick popularity; bill gates and paul allen used it to program for altaire, leading creation of. 1978-5. 25-inch floppy disk designed by steven wozniak can save programs and operating systems developed. operating systems coordinate with specific processor chip that controls the computer; that time apple used motoria chip and ibm an intel chip. 1977-dos, disk operating system by woaniak, controlling the first apple computers. Cp/m-control program for microcomputers by gary kildall, an os used for intel 8080 chip. Visicalc; spreadsheet created by harvard students bob frankston and dan bricklin. Lotus 1-2-3, added charting plotting database functions to spreadsheet software.