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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

  IBM

  Apple

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

  Bank of England

  University of Manchester

  Barclays Bank

  Royal Navy

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

  Hewlett-Packard

  Toshiba

  Lenovo

 4. What did Bell Laboratories invent in 1947?

  The mouse

  The compact disk

  The photocopier

  The transistor

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

  TRUE

  FALSE

 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?

  Archimedes

  Commodore

  XZ Spectrum

  BBC Micro

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

  Laser printer

  Cash register

  Laptop

 9. IBM sold its PC (Personal Computer) division to Lenovo in 2004.

  True

  False

 10. In what year did Apple launch the first Iphone?
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  1998

  2012

  2007

  2003