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Choose the answer that best answers each question.
1. What was the name of the first personal computer?
a. The Altair
b. The Apple I
c. The Artemis
d. The Macintosh
e. The IBM PC
2. Who were the founders of Microsoft?
a. Bill Gates & Bill Clinton
b. Bill Gates & Paul Allen
c. Bill Gates & James Tam
d. Bill (aka William) Shatner & Bill Murray
e. Stephen Harper and Stephane Dion
3. Which of the following correctly ranks the personal computers from the ones that were developed earlier to the ones that were developed later?
a. Altair, Apple I, Commodore PET, IBM PC
b. Altair, IBM PC, Apple I, Commodore PET
c. Altair, Commodore PET, IBM PC, Apple I
d. Altair, Commodore PET, Apple I, IBM PC
e. IBM PC, Commodore PET, Apple I, Altair