Computer Fundamentals - Engineering

Q1:

The first microprocessors produced by Intel Corpn. and Texas Instruments were used primarily to control small

A microwave ovens

B washing machines

C calculators

D personal computers

E robotics

ANS:C - calculators

The first commercial product to use a microprocessor was the Busicom calculator 141-PF.

The 4004 was also used in the first microprocessor-controlled pinball game, a prototype produced by Dave Nutting Associates for Bally in 1974.