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4. Famously advertised in 1984 during Super Bowl XVIII by a sledgehammer-throwing English athlete named Anya Major, what PC with a 7.8 MHz processor and 9’’ display succeeded a model known as the “Lisa?” (Full name required)
6. The MateBook line of laptops is manufactured by which Chinese tech giant?
8. “Big iron” is a nickname for which type of computer that is mostly used to quickly process a lot of data—for example, companies that have to process a lot of customer transactions?
10. What “K” IT infrastructure technology company, based out of Armonk, New York, started as a spinoff of IBM? Its logo is its own name, spelled out in lowercase orange letters.

1. What university initially maintained the text file named HOSTS.TXT that mapped host names to the numerical addresses of computers on the ARPANET?
2. The H-Store system is considered one of the most prominent examples in the class of parallel database management systems which are typically known by what six-letter name?
3. What English man was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, and is largely considered the originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer? Hint: his name rhymes with a common vegetable
5. Decades after it become known for its Magic Wand, which Japanese manufacturer created the first 1 TB hard disk in 2007? (Hint: The name combines the kanji characters “sun + rise”)
7. The first mass consumer product that offered Wi-Fi connectivity was branded as AirPort because the product was produced by Apple. What was this series of laptops that was first released in 1999?
9. APKs are downloadable files that store applications for which operating system?