QUIZ 2 -- THE EARLY OFFICE
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1. The main inventor of the first commercial typewriter was:
a. Christopher Islam
b. Christopher Sholes
c. Christopher Gregg
2. The keyboard arrangement most used today is the:
a. Dvorak keyboard
b. Sholes (QWERTY) keyboard
3. The first practical typewriter was marketed by Remington Arms, which was located in:
a. Herkimer, New York
b. Ilion, New York
c. Mohawk, New York
4. The Gregg Shorthand System was invented by:
a. Jonah Jefferson Gregg
b. John Robert Gregg
c. Robert John Gregg
5. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs finished work on a home-grown computer which they called the Apple 1 in March:
a. 1975
b. 1976
c. 1977
6. The first calculating machine that was practical for routine office work was manufactured beginning in 1886 and introduced commercially in 1888 by the Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company. This calculating machine was:
a. the Comptograph
b. the Comptometer
c. the Calculator
7. The first commercial data processing machines were punched card and tabulating machine systems. The first Electric Tabulating System was invented in 1901 by:
a. Herman Holland
b. Herman Hollerith
c. Herman Homan
8. The first commercial computer system in America was:
a. ENIAC
b. UNIVAC
9. The first postage meter approved for the U.S. Postal Service in 1920 was invented by:
a. George Pitney
b. Arthur Bowes
c. Arthur Pitney
10. In 1961 IBM introduced an electric typewriter in which characters are printed on paper by a rotating ball while the carriage remains fixed. This electric typewriter is the:
a. IBM Selectric
b. IBM Wheelwriter
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