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2) The following joke is based on which computer programming language? GOD is REAL unless declared an INTEGER.
a) COBOL
b) FORTRAN IV
c) C
d) BASIC
3) Which company manufactured and marketed the first commercial digital computer?
a) NCR
b) DEC
c) IBM
d) DG
4) The invention of the transistor, or semiconductor, was one of the most important developments leading to the personal computer revolution. What company invented the transistor in 1947?
a) MITS
b) International Business Machines
c) Xerox
d) Bell Laboratories
5) The first time a computer was used to predict the results of a presidential election was in 1952. Conventional wisdom and the UNIVAC computer disagreed. Whose side did Walter Cronkite take?
a) Walter Cronkite sided with the computer and announced that Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the 34th president of the United States.
b) Neither: Cronkite sat on the information.
c) Walter Cronkite went with the opinion polls and reported a victory for Adlai Stevenson and a crushing defeat for the reputation of the computer.
d) Walter Cronkite wasn?t there.
Help me! There's nothing in it for you, except the knowledge that you helped me look good at work. The rules for this quiz specifically allow for solicitation of answers. The first question is a job specific one, which is why it is omitted.
a) COBOL
b) FORTRAN IV
c) C
d) BASIC
3) Which company manufactured and marketed the first commercial digital computer?
a) NCR
b) DEC
c) IBM
d) DG
4) The invention of the transistor, or semiconductor, was one of the most important developments leading to the personal computer revolution. What company invented the transistor in 1947?
a) MITS
b) International Business Machines
c) Xerox
d) Bell Laboratories
5) The first time a computer was used to predict the results of a presidential election was in 1952. Conventional wisdom and the UNIVAC computer disagreed. Whose side did Walter Cronkite take?
a) Walter Cronkite sided with the computer and announced that Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the 34th president of the United States.
b) Neither: Cronkite sat on the information.
c) Walter Cronkite went with the opinion polls and reported a victory for Adlai Stevenson and a crushing defeat for the reputation of the computer.
d) Walter Cronkite wasn?t there.
Help me! There's nothing in it for you, except the knowledge that you helped me look good at work. The rules for this quiz specifically allow for solicitation of answers. The first question is a job specific one, which is why it is omitted.
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