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Unit 2 Competency 1


Obsolete Technologies

Directions: You will learn about obsolete (outdated) technologies. Make sure to answer all 15 questions.
1. Add a Blank 3 column footer with your name, period, and date. Save in your directory ICT/Computer folder as: Obsolete_1st initial

and last name. (ex.: Obsolete _JSmith)



2. Hold the Ctrl key and left click the web address below to visit the website.

3. Website: http://oldcomputers.net/

4. Once the website loads locate the panel on the left: Timeline. Select: Show Images.
5. Scroll down the timeline. You can copy/paste your answers/pictures in the Your Answer/Response column. Please

view all computers. Remember to scroll down to view the information about each computer after you select it.





Question

Your Answer/Response

1. 1975 - Select MITS Altair 8800.

a. What was the price if purchased assembled?

b. What size RAM?



a.

b.


2. 1975 - Select IBM Portable PC.

a. What was the price and RAM listed?


b. How much did it weigh?

c. What type of display?





a.

b.

c.



3. 1976 – Select Apple I.

a. How many were made?

b. Who created/designed the Apple I (hint: look below the image.)


a.

b.


4. 1977 – Select Apple II.

a. What was the price of the Apple II with 48K RAM?

b. What was the display’s maximum number of colors?

c. Copy and paste the Apple Logo.



a.
b.
c.



5. 1977 – Select Commodore PET

a. What was the model name/number?

b. What type of display?

c. What type of OS (Operating System) did it have?

d. What does PET represent (hint: look below the image)?


a.
b.
c.
d.


6. 1978 – Select IBM 5110

a. What was the price?

b. Below the image, it states that this system was well suited to business and problem-solving applications. List 3 areas it was used:


a.
b.





7. 1978 – Select Ohio Scientific Superboard II

a. What is the model name/number?

b. What OS did it use?


a.
b.


8. 1979 – Select Atari 400.

a. What type of ports?

b. This computer was designed primarily as a computer for whom?

c. Copy/Paste the Atari logo.



a.
b.
c.


9. 1980 – Select IBM 5120

a. What was the price and what other device came with it?

b. In Storage, what did it come with?


a.
b.


10. 1982 – Select Otrona Attache
a. What was the price?

b. Beside the 1st image, it described why this computer was so special.

What was so wonderful about it?

c. Look in the first image. What do you notice that is different about the

keyboard?

d. Below the picture, the Attache was the “_______ of portables”

cherished by everyone from NASA/JPL to regular people on the go.


a.
b.
c.
d.


11. 1982 – Select GRiD Compass 1101

a. What type of display?

b. Below the 1st image, where does this image show the computer to be?

c. Designed to be the ultimate portable computer, the clamshell-style

GRiD Compass 1101 is the grand-daddy of all the present-day

_________ computers.



a.
b.
c.


12. 1983 – Select Apple Lisa

a. What was the price?

b. What was the size of the RAM (Random Access Memory)?

c. Below the image, what did Lisa represent and how did they come up

with that name?

d. The Lisa is the first commercial computer with a GUI. What does GUI

represent?


a.
b.
c.
d.


13. 1984 – Select HP 110

a. What was the weight?


b. What types of ROM (Read Only Memory) did it use?

c. What types of batteries?


d. What was the life of the battery (hint: 2nd paragraph)?

a.
b.
c.
d.



14. 1985 – Commodore Amiga 1000
a. What type of display?

b. In the 1st paragraph, the Amiga was originally designed to be a what?





a.
b.


15. 1987 – Select Linus WriteTop
a. What type of display?

b. Which options could be purchased?


c. In the 1st paragraph below the images, Linus WriteTop was perhaps the

first _______________________.



a.
b.
c.





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