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04 - Famous Tech Companies

 1. What was the 'Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company' renamed in 1924?
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  Lenovo

  Microsoft

  Apple

  IBM

 2. Who was the first customer of the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercially available general purpose electronic computer?

  Barclays Bank

  Bank of England

  Royal Navy

  University of Manchester

 3. Which company was founded in this, now famous, California garage?
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  Sun Microsystems

  Hewlett-Packard

  Toshiba

  Lenovo

 4. What did Bell Laboratories invent in 1947?

  The transistor

  The mouse

  The photocopier

  The compact disk

 5. The Intel 1103 was the first ever Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 6. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computers on April Fool's Day 1976.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 7. What home computer did Sinclair Research launch in 1982?

  BBC Micro

  Archimedes

  Commodore

  XZ Spectrum

 8. The Gavilan SC launched in 1983 is generally considered to be the first what?
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  Laser printer

  Smartphone

  Cash register

  Laptop

 9. IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2004.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 10. In what year did Apple launch the first Iphone?
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  2003

  1998

  2012

  2007