Lab 1 History of Hardware CISC 181 You are to complete this lab on your own and upload your answers to it to onQ no later than Friday of Week 1 at 11:00 p.m. EDT (Kingston time). Work directly on this document in the spaces provided for your solutions and resubmit it. In the first module's slides, we looked at some computer history. See if you can find the following details from computer hardware history. For each question, give the requested details and then a link (the full URL or web address) to the English language page you found them on. Note that though Wikipedia is certainly not without its faults, it is usually a reliable source of information on such things, and you may reference it. In any case, you may want to start your search with Google, Bing, or another search engine and see if you can find the appropriate information that way. Should you find two sources that provide conflicting information, choose which you feel is the more reliable. 1. (10 marks) In what years were each of the following important computer hardware companies founded? Company Year Apple 1976 Lenovo 1984 Google 1998 Samsung 1938 Nvidia 1993 Source URL https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/april/apple-computers- founded https://www.zippia.com/lenovo-careers-29400/history/ https://about.google/our-story/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Samsung-Electronics nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/corporate-timeline/ 2. (2 marks) What was the name of the Apple computer, released in 1983, that was the first from that company to use a graphical user interface (GUI)? (Hint: It was not the Macintosh.) Name Source URL Lisa Computer https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1983/ 3. (2 marks) What is the name of the world's current fastest supercomputer? Name Source URL Fugaku supercomputer https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-s-Fugaku-keeps-position-as- world-s-fastest-supercomputer 4. (2 marks) When was Apple's iPhone first released in the US? Date (yyy y- mm- dd) 2007 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/steve-jobs-debuts-the-iphone# :~: text=On%20January -01- %209%2C%202007%2C%20Apple,Macworld%20convention%20in%20San%20Francisco. 09 Source URL 5. (2 marks) How many continuous hours, maximum, was ENIAC able to run without a failure in 1954? Ho Source URL urs 116 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/ENIAC# :~: text=According%20to%20an%20interview%20in,hours %E2%80%94close%20to%20five%20days. 1
6. (2 marks) The first hard disk drive was about as large as "two medium-sized refrigerators." What was its storage capacity as measured in megabytes (MB)? Capacity (MB) 3.75 Source URL https://www.wikiwand.com/en/History_of_hard disk_drives 2