August, 2001 Diablo Blue Page 13
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3. Software language first used in 1960
6. Software language first used in 1957
7. In 1946 John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert completed building this machine
8. The first of these computers were delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951 by the Remington Rand Corporation.
9. IBM user group that met for the first time in 1955.
10. He began working on Plankalkul (Plan Calculus) in 1945 (2 words)
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1. Term coined in 1948 by Norbert Wiener (from a Greek word for steersman)
2. Computer that debuted on Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" television series in 1951.
4. In 1962 MIT students Slug Russell, Shag Graetz, and Alan Kotok wrote this first interactive computer game
5. In 1961 this first industrial robot, began work at General Motors.
9. The first large-scale computer communications network linked hundreds ofradar stations in the United States and Canada in 1958.
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About the August Crossword Puzzle by Craig Peterson, DVPC Librarian |
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It used to be that a home office was where you could find a calculator (if the kids didn't need it for school), a phone and a typewriter. In the last few years, however, many of us have upgraded to the point where the home office has equipment as powerful as many large corporate offices. Check out the items that many of us have in this month's puzzle.