Information Technology Fundamentals (ITF) Mr. Shultz
Today’s Objectives and Bell-Ringer Bell-Ringer 1.What are five benefits employers realize from telecommuting? 2.What is a primary concern in a mobile and accessible IT system? 3.What are three employee supervision tasks that are more difficult when employees are not physically present? Objectives Given a video on the history of the personal computer, TSW investigate major milestones in the evolution of computer systems with no errors. (BUS )
Bell-Ringer 1. What are five benefits employers realize from telecommuting? Productivity gains Reduced absenteeism Reduced employee turnover costs Reduced real estate costs Reduced relocation costs
Bell-Ringer 2. What is a primary concern in a mobile and accessible IT system? Security
Bell-Ringer 3. What are three employee supervision tasks that are more difficult when employees are not physically present? Evaluating performance Distributing the workload Motivating employees
Would you like to own this yacht? Helicopter Submarine Pool Full-time crew of 60 Basketball court $250 million Yearly costs - $20 million
Would you like to own an NBA team? Value - $350 Million
Would you like to own an NFL team? Value - $990 Million
Which one would you choose?
You can have them all – if you’re Paul Allen
Video o How did Paul Allen get all that money? o He co-founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates o Worth $15.8 Billion now o Bill Gates is worth $72 Billion o Larry Ellison is worth $41 Billion
Video o NOTE – this video was made in 1996 o The first question is about how much we was worth in 1996 o When they say “20 years ago” it means 1976 o Answer questions on worksheet o Worksheet must be turned in TODAY o Pay attention, we may not have time to review answers
Video 1. How much money did Paul Allen have when the video was made? $8 billion
Video 2. What was it called when instructions were put into computers by flipping switches or loading them from paper tape? Machine language
Video 3. How many transistors were on the microprocessor that Bob Cringely was holding? More than a million
Video 4. What percentage of the world’s computers were powered by Intel processors when the video was made? 85%
Video 5. Whose idea was the Altair 8800 computer? Ed Roberts
Video 6. What was one of the first clubs that nerds formed to talk about their new toys? The Homebrew computer club
Video 7. At first, what was the only way that data and instructions could be given to the Altair? By flipping switches
Video 8. How old was Bill Gates when Microsoft was started? 19
Video 9. How many Apple 1s did Steve Jobs sell? 50
Video 10. Before Apple, what company had venture capitalist Arthur Rock funded? Intel
Video 11. How old was Steve Jobs when the Apple II was introduced at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire? 21
Video 12. What was VisiCalc? The first electronic spreadsheet
Video 13. How much was Steve Jobs worth when he was 25? $100 million
Video 14. What did IBM call buying components off the shelf and assembling them? “Open Architecture”
Video 15. What two essential bits of software does every PC require in order to work at all? Computer language Operating system
Video 16. What did Microsoft and IBM call Q-DOS? PC-DOS 1.0
Video 17. How much did Microsoft pay Seattle Computer Products for Q-DOS? $50,000
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Information Technology Fundamentals (ITF)