Leaving Cert History (The United States and the Wider World Flashcards) Flashcards on 3.2 Developments in Information Technology, created by samstevenson2014 on 19/04/2015.
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What did weapons systems and space exploration depend on?
Where were the first computers built and why?
Who produced the first general computer in 1946?
How much did it weigh?
What appeared in 1951?
How much did it cost?
How many words could it hold?
What was the transistor?
Why were several transistors combined on a piece of silicon?
What was developed in the 1970's?
What did they allow?
Who developed the first personal computer and when?
What did personal computers lead to?
What did the US military worry about?
What did they create to avoid this?
What did this form the basis of?
What allowed vast quantities of information to be carried along a phone line to a computer with a modem in the 1990's?
