Computer History Museum Quiz

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Fall Semester 2012

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

You can find all the answers among the Revolution exhibits. After you’ve completed this extra-credit quiz, please log into Canvas and enter your answers online. Each correct answer adds one point to your midterm score.

1. Silent 700 4. Behemoth a. Said by Larry Ellison of his first a. "Big Electronic Human Energized employees at Oracle who worked Machine, Only Too Heavy" hard "without the sound of a bit b. The nickname for a Control Data dropping". supercomputer. b. The nickname of an early electronic c. Said of an early Intel chip whose computer that had 700 transistors prototype was much larger than instead of clicking mechanical relays. originally specified. c. A group of anti-computer zealots d. The title of a 1950s horror movie in who patterned themselves after the which a giant electronic brain "Moral Majority" during the 1980s. terrorizes a computer company. d. A portable computer terminal 5. The first so-called computer bug introduced in 1971 which quietly due a. Inadvertently created by Ada to its use of thermal paper. Lovelace while programming the 2. A Hollerith card Babbage Difference Engine. a. A printed circuit card with transistors b. A dead moth found inside the on one side and diodes and Harvard Mark II computer after the resistors on the other side. machine had stopped working. b. A processing unit in an early blade c. Theorized by Alan Turing during a server. lecture about his eponymous Turing c. Was the size of an $10 bill. Machine. d. Contained a magnetic stripe to store d. Debated by John von Neumann and up to 256K bytes and was Howard Aiken over who was automatically picked up and read. responsible. 3. "The company lost its leadership" to a 6. "Death to the mainframe" company with "34 people, including the a. The slogan of Cromemco, an early janitor" was said by personal computer maker in 1985. a. Charles Babbage after his funding b. Words literally eaten by Stewart was cut off. Alsop, technology writer, in 2002. b. A disgruntled Apple vice president. c. Translated from Russian, said by c. A famous Harvard business school Lenonid Brezhnev in 1979 while professor discussing Hewlett- claiming Soviet computing Packard. superiority. d. The CEO of IBM disappointed by his d. Proclaimed by mathematician Jan company's performance. Lukasiewicz while discussing his treatise on reverse Polish notation in 1955.

1 7. The first computer game console that 10. Pac-Man Fever was installed in a Sunnyvale bar failed a. A term used to describe the first because computer game addicts. a. It jammed from too many quarters b. An early computer virus that inserted by players. infected game consoles. b. The cheap CRT display couldn't c. A record album that went gold on keep up with the players' moves. the Billboard Hot 100, based on the c. The game controllers would break computer game. from overly aggressive playing. d. The name of an advertising d. The Sunnyvale Police considered campaign to promote the Pac-Man the console to be a gambling device. game. 8. It was designed to have 256 processors, 11. "Robot Squirrel" but only 64 were built. a. A popular computer game on the a. IBM's embarrassing "Stretch" original Apple Macintosh. computer. b. A robotics term designating a mobile b. Apple's ill-fated supercomputer. sensor that can intelligently traverse c. The Illiac IV computer at NASA a network of pipes. Ames. c. "Hunts its own food", according to a d. The Cray IV supercomputer's Popular Science magazine article in floating-point unit. 1952. 9. $PARK d. The pseudonym of a notorious a. The facetious new name proposed hacker who brought down a major for Xerox PARC after they began to bank's computer system in 1993. develop commercial software. 12. SafeType b. The term used by the RAMAC a. An ergonomic keyboard, 1998. instruction manual to indicate the b. A type-safe computer language, location of the disk arm in its resting 1975. position. c. A keyboard encryption algorithm, c. A built-in string variable in an early 1968. microcomputer version of the BASIC d. The class system of a pioneering programming language. object-oriented programming d. A software application from Wang language, 1989. Laboratories to perform inventory control.

2 Computer History Museum Quiz

Fall Semester 2013

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

1. It had a 64-bit magnetic shift register: 7. Members of the Quarter Century Club: a. The IBM 701 computer. a. IEEE members after 25 years. b. The GE UNIVAC I. b. Computer products voted the best of c. The Harvard Mark IV computer. the past 25 years by readers of d. The U.S. Army’s EDVAC computer. Datamation magazine. c. IBM employees after 25 years 2. Its operating system was written in the of service. Algol language: d. Venerated Stanford University a. The IBM 360 Model 65. computer science professors who b. The Burroughs B5500 computer. have taught over 25 years. c. The UNIVAC III. d. The ILLIAC supercomputer. 8. It had made more calculations than all of mankind until it was stopped by a 3. Cranking this too fast caused errors: lightning strike: a. The IBM Type 80 card sorter. a. The ENIAC computer. b. The Burroughs’s 1880 calculator. b. The Colossus computer. c. The Hollerith card reader. c. The Whirlwind computer. d. The ENIAC computer power supply. d. The Atanasoff-Berry computer. 4. It cost $0.50 in the 1870s: 9. Project Cyclone: a. A box of Hollerith cards. a. Built the Whirlwind computer at MIT. b. A telegram message. b. Designed the cooling fans for the c. A local telephone call. IBM Perseus supercomputer. d. A data clerk’s hourly wage. c. A project at CalTech that designed 5. A techno-liberation cooperative: computer-based sensors dropped a. The Free Software Foundation. by plane into tornadoes. b. A non-profit organization that d. A post-World War II guided rocketry collects old computers to distribute project in the U.S. to impoverished nations overseas. 10. “Jaws” c. A group of computer literacy schools a. The Colossus computer’s “Jump in rural Brazil. and wait serially” instruction. d. “Community Memory” in Berkeley b. The first U.S. “Discovision” film title. during the early 1970s. c. Nickname for an early NEC 6. It could only upload data: supercomputer that “eats the a. The first Ethernet installation. competition in one byte”. b. The first Internet message d. A tool to extract jammed punched processor. cards from a high-speed reader. c. An IBM token ring node. d. A Sony Typecorder modem.

1 11. Kept at 149 degrees Fahrenheit: 14. N4RVE: a. The memory core planes of the a. The serial number of the first Honeywell “kitchen computer”. ILLIAC disk drive. b. The mercury in mercury delay line b. The character sequence that tubes. US Robotics modems used to c. Punched cards in order to be sorted establish a phone connection. reliably by the IBM Type 82 card c. Code name for a secret underwater sorter. computer for the U.S. Navy. d. Early germanium transistors to d. The license number of the prevent hysteresis underflow. Behemoth. 12. Continental Europe’s only electronic 15. It had over 60 miles of wires with no computer in 1950: segment longer than 3 feet: a. The Zuse Z4. a. The IBM 360 Model 95. b. The IBM 402 accounting machine. b. A Cray supercomputer. c. The Olivetti Programma Model 3. c. The NCR Century 200 computer. d. The Soviet BESM M-1. d. The first RAID hardware. 13. It pioneered virtual memory, timesharing, and pipelining in the early 1960s: a. The Atlas computer. b. The IBM 1401 computer. c. The CDC 6400 computer. d. The Burroughs B5000 computer.

2 Computer History Museum Quiz

Spring 2014

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

You can find all the answers among the Revolution exhibits. Each correct answer adds one point to your midterm score. Yes, you can work together to find the answers. Please bring your completed quiz to class on Tuesday.

1. The IBM 1800 was designed by 6. A commercial computer in the early a. Alan Turing’s third cousin 1950s used this memory technology. b. Steven Spielberg’s father a. Flux capacitance c. John Wayne’s nephew b. Light inductance d. Steve Jobs’s father-in-law c. Sound waves d. Magnetic resonance 2. “Squee” a. The sound of a high-speed card 7. The first all-electronic desktop calculator. reader as it jams on a bent card. a. Was already obsolete because it b. What a beginning programming used vacuum tubes. student at Stanford was called. b. Was on an Apollo moon mission to c. “Sequential erase and enter” calculate the landing sequence. instruction of the NCR 200. c. Had an embarrassing division error d. The name of a robotic squirrel that found by a 10-year-old. hunted tennis balls. d. Was banned by university math professors. 3. “No alcohol during business hours.” a. Dave Packard to HP senior staff. 8. Lyons & Co. Tea Shop b. Thomas Watson to IBM salesmen. a. Where Alan Turing secretly went for c. Ken Olsen to his VP of Marketing. his tea breaks during World War II. d. Xerox PARC rule for researchers. b. Where members of the MIT Whirlwind design team met. 4. “Dealer sessions” c. Threw out the chief engineer of the a. Negotiations between IBM sales IBM 7900 after an altercation. staff and their key customers. d. Spun off a company to sell b. Weekly researcher meetings at the computers. Xerox PARC Computer Science Lab. c. Said to occur at computer swap 9. $620 meets of the late 1990s. a. Daily cost to lease a moderate-size d. How the operating system resolved IBM S/360 in 1967. CPU contention in the Burroughs b. Larry Ellison’s hourly consulting rate 5100 multiprocessing system. shortly after he founded Oracle. c. Normal average monthly salary of a 5. It had over 600 mechanical parts in the computer programmer in 1958. mid 1950s and was difficult to d. IBM legal team’s quarter-hour rate reassemble by users. during the 1969 antitrust trials. a. A IBM 704 card reader b. An NCR Model III cash register 10. The oldest surviving printed math tables. c. A Curta calculator a. Printed in 94 B.C. in China. d. A Mark IV printing unit b. Printed in 1064 in Arabia. c. Printed in 1403 in France. d. Printed in 1468 in Germany.

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Spring Semester 2014

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

1. A basic office automation task in 1925. 7. A commercial computer in the early a. Wiring typewriter plugboards. 1950s used this memory technology. b. Rebooting accounting machines. a. Flux capacitance. c. Sorting punched cards. b. Light pulses. d. Reconfiguring adding machines. c. Sound waves. d. Magnetic resonance. 2. “No alcohol during business hours.” a. Dave Packard to HP senior staff. 8. Lyons & Co. Tea Shop b. Ken Olsen to his VP of Marketing. a. Where Alan Turing went during his c. Xerox PARC rule for researchers. tea breaks. d. Thomas Watson to IBM salesmen. b. Where the designers of the Colossus computer met. 3. German V2 rockets were guided by: c. Threw out the chief engineer of the a. Op-amps. IBM 7900 after an altercation. b. Primitive read-only memory units. d. Spun off a company to sell c. Dead reckoning. computers. d. Earth’s magnetic field. 9. “FORTRAN for Precedent” 4. The oldest surviving printed math tables. a. Attributed to John Backus who was a. Printed in 1064 in Arabia. attending a language conference. b. Printed in 1468 in Germany. b. Slogan on a button. c. Printed in 94 B.C. in China. c. Rallying cry of early computer d. Printed in 1403 in France. science students at CalTech. 5. It had over 600 mechanical parts in the d. Remark by the chair of the COBOL mid 1950s. standards committee in 1964. a. The IBM 704 card reader. 10. $620 b. The NCR Model III cash register. a. Daily cost to lease the top-of-the- c. The Curta calculator. line IBM S/360 in 1969. d. The Mark IV printing unit. b. Larry Ellison’s hourly consulting rate 6. The first all-electronic desktop calculator. shortly after he founded Oracle. a. Was already obsolete because it c. IBM lawyers’ hourly rate during the used vacuum tubes. antitrust trials of the 1990s. b. Had an embarrassing division error. d. Normal average monthly salary of a c. Was on an Apollo moon mission. computer programmer in 1958. d. Was banned by university math professors.

1 11. Among the earliest commercial 16. Wagon Wheel computers to use paging. a. A tavern where Fairchild employees a. A Univac computer at the Dulles met in the mid 1960s. Airport. b. What the timing flywheel was called b. A Burroughs computer in 1961. in early Honeywell line printers that c. An IBM mainframe in 1964. ensured proper print alignment. d. A PDP minicomputer at the San c. An early Atari computer game Francisco airport. based on a then-popular Japanese gambling device. 12. What the IBM CEO had to say about a d. A favorite song of Seymour Cray competitor’s faster computer. when he still worked at CDC. a. “That can’t be! It won’t compute!” b. “Our lawyers will have a field day.” 17. It would have cost $40K as a product. c. “34 people, including the janitor”. a. The never-released “Fuji” Apple d. “Their cafeteria staff designed this?” Macintosh computer. b. The ill-fated Honeywell home 13. It pioneered virtual memory, timesharing, computer in 1974. and pipelining in the early 1960s. c. A game console developed by a a. The Atlas computer. “skunk works” group at IBM. b. The IBM 1401 computer. d. The Xerox Alto I personal computer c. The CDC 6400 computer. system. d. The Burroughs B5000 computer. 18. It was, in effect, a networked computer 14. “Open door policy” in 1985. a. What development of open source a. The TRS 80 software was originally called. b. The Commodore 6400 b. Part of the “HP Way”. c. The Northstar Horizon c. Trade policy with the Soviet Union in d. The Mupid II to sell them computers in 1971. d. Computer labs with unlocked doors 19. The IBM 1800 was designed by at MIT during the early 1970s. a. Steven Spielberg’s father b. John von Neumann’s nephew 15. Squee: c. Steve Jobs’s father-in-law a. The sound of a high-speed card d. Alan Turing’s third cousin reader as it jams on a bent card. b. A robotic squirrel that hunted tennis 20. This supercomputer was supposed to balls. have 256 processors. c. “Sequential erase and enter” a. The IBM Perseus instruction of the NCR 200. b. The Cray IV d. What a beginning programming c. The CDC 25600 student at Stanford is called. d. The Illiac IV

2 Computer History Museum Quiz

Spring 2015

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

You can find all the answers among the Revolution exhibits. Each correct answer adds one point to your midterm score. Yes, you can work together to find the answers. Please enter your answers into Canvas.

1. “Ready or not, computers are coming 6. Botanical Society of the British Isles to the people.” a. Had Alan Turing as a member a. Alan Turing, 1949 b. Used 40-column punched cards b. IBM marketing slogan, 1965 c. First to deploy a relational database c. Rolling Stones article, 1972 d. Spun off the British Computer d. Xerox PARC, 1984 Society

2. Commissioned Honeywell to 7. Frances Bilas forecast the future of computing a. Wrote the second COBOL program a. George Lucas for “Star Wars” b. Invented “name” parameters b. Robert Zemeckis for c. Was a Bletchley Park code-breaker “Back to the Future” d. Married an ENIAC programmer c. Gene Roddenberry for “Star Trek” d. Stanley Kubrick for 8. “Bits to pixels, series of bytes to vectors, “2001: A Space Odyssey” quadratic equations to curves” a. Said of computer graphics in a video 3. 21,700 characters b. From a Stanford Computer Science a. Capacity of a CRAM card Department course description b. Different Chinese characters c. PIXAR vision statement printable by a type 8 laser printer d. SGI company motto c. Number of characters printed by an IBM 1403 printer in one minute 9. The Lorenz code could be broken d. Throughput of the HP 755 Plotter in a. By the Zuse Z1 computer one hour b. By recursively applying the inverted 3-tape sorting algorithm 4. Burned his boat because c. A secret Churchill kept from the he had built a new one Soviets at the start of the Cold War a. Steve Jobs d. Known by the Nazis who used it b. Bill Gates anyway during World War II c. Thomas Watson d. Seymour Cray 10. 128 40-bit words a. Memory cache size of the Univac I 5. Designed to handle Social Security b. Storage capacity of the Williams- punched cards Kilburn tube of the Mark I a. Hollerith card reader c. Drum capacity of the Johnniac b. Type 026 keypunch machine d. Memory capacity of the c. Type 77 collator original HP digital watch d. IBM 1401 computer system

1 Computer History Museum Quiz

Fall 2015

Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Prof. Ron Mak

You can find all the answers among the Revolution exhibits. Each correct answer adds one point to your midterm score. Yes, you can work together to find the answers. Enter your answers into Canvas by 11:59 PM Sunday night.

1. Steven Spielberg’s father 6. SLT a. Bought the Speak & Spell toy a. IBM’s Solid Logic Technology. seen in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. b. Apple ad’s “Sold last Tuesday” b. Was a Luddite who warned his lament for sold-out Macs. son about digital electronics. c. DEC’s Silicon Layered Terminator. c. Designed an IBM computer d. The Eniac’s Shift Left and Test system. instruction. d. Wrote software for Jurassic Park. 7. Solved 6th order differential equations 2. Tiger Electronics in 1928 a. A 1960s Korean computer a. A Chinese abacus expert. company. b. The Babbage Difference Engine. b. Its leading product spoke Furbish. c. The IBM 1401 computer system. c. Its electronic tags tracked big d. The Bush Differential Analyzer. game in Africa. d. The first electronics store to allow 8. Originally designed for 256 processors customers to order by phone. a. The ILLIAC IV supercomputer. b. The CDC 2560 supercomputer. 3. The world’s first spam message c. The HP “super laser printer”. a. Sent by the teenaged daughter d. Gordon Moore’s “law chip”. of a Xerox PARC engineer. b. Sent by a DEC salesman to 9. “There are lots of Johns in the world.” announce a product demo. a. Said to justify the naming c. Sent by the Hormel Foods of the Johnniac computer. Corporation. b. Said after a “SELECT name” d. Bounced back to the sender query of the first relational as undeliverable. database. c. Explains why so many startups 4. Selected Lois Lane’s ideal husband are run by men named John. a. Bletchley Park code breakers. d. The very first tweet sent as a test. b. A Teddy Ruxpin talking bear. c. A Chinese abacus expert. 10. “We never found it in error.” d. A UNIVAC computer. a. Said of the IBM 360 by IBM’s CEO. b. Said of the UNIVAC by the 5. Born in San Jose U.S. census bureau. a. The computer mouse. c. Said by a Chinese abacus expert. b. The quicksort algorithm. d. Said of the HP 25 calculator c. Disk drives. by a mathematics professor. d. Divide-by-zero machine check.

1 Computer History Museum Quiz

Spring 2016

Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Engineering San José State University Prof. Ron Mak

1. Design #5 was by 6. The first stored-program computer a. Thomas Watson a. “Cognos” b. Gordon Bell b. “Baby” c. John von Neumann c. “Honeybee” d. Alan Turing d. “Genie”

2. The world’s fastest computer in 1950 7. “A Salesman is a Man who Sells.” a. Eniac a. An old IBM motto. b. Whirlwind b. An old HP motto. c. SWAC c. An old Xerox motto. d. Manchester Mark I d. An old DEC motto.

3. Open Door Policy 8. “Two cheeseburgers and a Big Mac to go.” a. Office cubicles without doors. a. A typical lunch order by the first b. Computer technology trade Facebook engineers. agreement with the Soviet Union. b. Displayed by DEC’s Lunar Lander c. Part of the HP Way. video game. d. Computer technology trade c. A food order by the Stanford artificial agreement with China. intelligence program “Hungry Al”. d. Winner’s prize in an early computer 4. The Silicon Valley napkin game sponsored by MacDonald’s. a. “Wiped up the venture capital mess” during the 1998 industry crash. 9. A constant 149° F b. A “roach coach” that provided lunches a. Internal temperature of the first IC. outside of Netflix headquarters. b. Temperature of mercury memory. c. A preprinted template for starting a c. CDC 6400 disk platter temperature. company while dining in a restaurant. d. Johnniac enclosure temperature. d. Said to be worn by investors drooling over the prospects of a hot start-up. 10. The first ATM a. Developed by a manufacturer of 5. Promoted by GE in 1965 automated baggage handlers. a. A vacuum tube desktop calculator. b. Dispensed $2 bills that jammed. b. The Williams-Kilburn tube. c. Made for Bank of America in 1965. c. The GE 1024 real-time processor. d. Developed by a manufacturer of bank d. The BASIC programming language. safes with programmable lock timers.