Computing History

4. First-generation computer used these for logic circuitry based a thermionic valve
8. Considered to be the "father" of computing
11. ___ was done by plugging hundreds of wires into plugboards
14. First microcomputer
15. Element used in computer processors
16. First truly general-purpose electronic computer
17. First company to design a GUI
18. Computer named after Steve Jobs' daughter meaning Local Integrated Software Architecture
19. Originally a job title now evolved into a device we use daily

1. world's largest computer chip manufacturer today
2. International Business Machine
3. First computer programmer
5. General Purpose computer proposed by Charles Babbage
6. A semi-conductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power
7. first fully transistor-powered, commercially available computer
9. one of the largest electro-mechanical computers completed in 1944 by IBM
10. An automatic computer designed to tabulate polynomial functions
11. Many early computers used this as the primary method for input
12. Graphical User Interface
13. According to ___ ___, anything that went wrong with a computer is considered a computer bug.