Triumph of the Nerds Questions
IBM's nickname
"Big Blue" dress code= blue suit.
Xerox
1st easy to use computer, 1st GUI, 1st computer network
Apple II
1st real packaged computer, commercially successful.
Counterculture
A group that forms outside the mainstream w/ a different set of values + behavior. Computer inventors shared what they found out.
What did the PC need to be commercially successful?
A killer application
1st company to reah commercial success with the PC
Apple
Founders of Microsoft
Bill Gates + Paul Allen
Open Architecture
Buying things off the shelf to make a product.
Dan Bricklin + Bob Frankston
Created visacalc -the first spreadsheet
What did adobe supply
Desktop Publishing for the Mac
Larry Ellison
Founder of Oracle (business software, said IBM's giving up Microsoft: their biggest mistake
Mainframe + name of 1st
Giant computer- instrument in banking, ENIAC
Intel Founders + their contributions
Gordon Moore, Andy Grove + Bob Noyce, cubicles- sense of community.
GUI
Graphic User Interface
Bill Gate's greatest fear
Growing old and not being smart anymore
Homebrew Computer club
Hall rented at Stanford to figure out what they could do with the technology (altair)
Who is "big brother"
IBM
How did the MSFT/IBM relationship begin?
IBM needed a computer language + operating system
ROM-BIOS
IBM's connection between hardware + software ROM- read only memory, BIOS- Basis input/output System
Gary Killdall
Inter Galactic Digital Research- operating system
Huge breakthrough in the PC
Microprocessor chip.
What lead to the breakup of MSFT/IBM?
Microsoft wanted to sell its software to other companies
Microsofties
Obsessive hackers
PARC
Paulo Alto Research Center, Steve Jobs took all their technology
Rod Canion
Reverse engineer that founded Compact.
Apple I
Sigle circuit board w/ no keyboard.
proprietary software
Software come all from one place and you can find it anywhere
Founders of Apple
Steve Jobbs + Steve Wozniak
Reverse Engineering
Taking a part a product so that you can see how it works and create something similar
What happened to apple in 1980?
They went public
Jim Warren
West Coast computer fair- forum to discuss technology
WYSIWYG
What you see is what you get, 1st laser printer
Before IBM's 1st computer what was the PC still missing?
an operating system
COBAL
business computer language
John Warnock
created laser printer + founded Adobe
Who is grace Hopper?
created the 1st computer language using typed in words
how did apple advertise the apple II
demonstrations, spot at west coast computer fair.
Venture Capital
financial assistance for start-up companies
Bob Metcalfe
invented the ethernet, 1st computer network
What happened august 24, 1995
launch of windows 95
Digital convergence
one device where all types of digital info can get to.
What was the biggest problem with software?
piracy, others could copy it + use it for free.
microsurfs
recruits directly out of college
Fortan
scientific computer language
Economic ramifications of the apple II
spreadsheets, monitors, games, computer hardware
Why did Steve Jobs leave apple?
the directors decided to follow John Scully's plan.
