CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Commodore Pet, Herman Hollerith, Steve Wozniak
9 Sep 2016
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Chapter two of technology in action: the history of the pc. Altair 8800: the very first personal computer o o. 256 bytes of memory: no keyboard, monitor, or printer. Steve wozniak and steve jobs built apple together: apple i was apple"s first pc, apple ii had a colour monitor, sound, and game paddles, apple iii followed shortly after. Commodore pet 2001 and trs-80 were apple"s biggest competition. Ibm pc: the 1982 machine of the year. Beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code (basic): programming language that the beginning programming student could easily learn o. Bill gates and paul allen used basic to write microsoft. Disk ii: a smaller, 5. 25 inch floppy disk subsystem. Disk operating system (dos): the os that controlled the first apple computers. Control program for microcomputers (cp/m): the first os designed for the intel 8080 chip. Quick and dirty operating system (qdos): microsoft bought the rights to it and distributed it to.
