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04 - Famous Tech Companies

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

  Lenovo

  Apple

  Microsoft

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

  Royal Navy

  University of Manchester

  Barclays Bank

  Bank of England

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

  Toshiba

  Hewlett-Packard

  Lenovo

 4. What did Bell Laboratories invent in 1947?

  The compact disk

  The transistor

  The mouse

  The photocopier

 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.

  FALSE

  TRUE

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

  Commodore

  Archimedes

  XZ Spectrum

  BBC Micro

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

  Laptop

  Smartphone

  Laser printer

 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

  2012

  1998

  2007