Pirates of Silicon Valley Questions Response

1. Who originally owned the rights to the computer Steve Wosiak made, and why did they not take advantage of it?
1. HP owned the original rights but did not want to make a personal computer.

2. What was the first computer that Bill Gates and Paul Allen tried to
write software for? What did they write?
2. They wrote Basic for the Altair.

3. Which company made the first large investment in Apple Computer?
3. Intel

4. Did Microsoft invent the Disk Operating System? Briefly explain the
deal Microsoft made with IBM concerning DOS.
4. Microsoft sold IBM DOS but they had no such os so they bought it from a guy for %0k.

5. Who invented the first mouse-driven graphical user interface?
5. Xerox

6. What was the name of the first computer made by Apple that had a
graphical interface? (Hint: it's not the Macintosh)
6. The Lisa

7. Explain how and why Steve Jobs left Apple Computer.
7. Steve Jobs was fired from Apple.

Python has different syntax

in lines like all languages

has words and numbers

lines are numbered

not complete sentences

python is complex rather than complicated

very similar to small basic

has 3 kinds of variables.

Grace Hopper was a computer science engineer who created the term bug