Information Technology Fundamentals (ITF) Mr. Shultz

Today’s Objective(s) and Bell-Ringer Bell-Ringer Questions 1.What was the first electronic spreadsheet? 2.What did IBM call buying components off the shelf and assembling them? 3.What did Microsoft and IBM call Q-DOS? Objective Given a video on the history of the personal computer, TSW investigate the impact of the graphical user interface in personal computers with no errors. (BUS )

Bell-Ringer 1. What was the first electronic spreadsheet? VisiCalc

Bell-Ringer 2. What did IBM call buying components off the shelf and assembling them? “Open Architecture”

Bell-Ringer 3. What did Microsoft and IBM call Q-DOS?  PC-DOS 1.0

Video o How do you copy a file from a flash drive to your Z drive?

Video o How do you copy a file from a flash drive to your Z drive? This is how you had to do everything on early PCs Type in instructions Today’s video shows you who developed the GUI It wasn’t Apple

Video o Answer questions on worksheet o Read the first question now so you’re ready when it comes up o After you answer a question, read the next one

Video 1. Where was the IBM PC developed? Boca Raton, FL

Video 2. What was the IBM code- name for the PC? “The Floridian project”

Video 3. IBM had forecast sales of a half million computers by In those 3 years, how many did they sell? 2 million

Video 4. What was the vital chip that connected the hardware with the software in an IBM PC? The ROM-BIOS

Video 5. Where did every clone maker buy his operating sytem? Microsoft

Video 6. IBM planned to steal the market from Gates with a brand-new operating system called what? OS/2

Video 7. What is a KLOC? A thousand (K) Lines Of Code

Video 8. In 1980, how much larger was IBM than Microsoft? 3,000 times

Video 9. When Apple aired the “Big Brother” ad in 1984, what computer did they launch? The Macintosh

Video 10. What does PARC stand for? Palo Alto Research Center

Video 11. When was the Xerox Alto computer built? Around 1973

Video 12. How was the Alto linked to other PCs? By Ethernet, the first computer network

Video 13. What was the one thing that Steve Jobs was “blinded by” at PARC? The graphical user interface

Video 14. What was the code name of the computer that Apple started developing? Lisa

Video 15. What was the parody of a TV game show that Steve Jobs staged to whip up enthusiasm among software developers? The Macintosh Software Dating Game

Video 16. How did the Mac team see themselves? As Apple’s pirates

Video 17. At the Macintosh launch, what did Steve Jobs say were the only two milestone products in the computer industry? The Apple II (in 1977) The IBM PC (in 1981)

Video 18. What saying did Picasso have about artists? “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”

Video 19. What did Apple accuse Microsoft of stealing? The look and feel of Apple’s GUI

Video 20. When did Microsoft launch Windows 3? 1990

Video 21. In a year, how many copies of Windows 3 were sold? Close to 30 million

Video 22. What did Windows 95 combine into one package? The PC’s operating system and graphical interface

Video 23. Who is Larry Ellison? The boss of Oracle (co- founder and CEO)

Video 24. What did Larry Ellison believe the PC will be replaced by? A cheap device he calls an information appliance

Video 25. Where did Larry Ellison say software should be? On the net

Video 26. How many millionaires did Microsoft have? 2,000

Information Technology Fundamentals (ITF)