Computer input devices

Comprehension check
Exercise 2. True or false? Find sentences in the text that support your point of view.
1 IBM started in the late twentieth century as manufacturer of electromechanical office tabulating equipment. ____________________________________________
2. IBM took its current name in 1924._____________________________________
3. IBM immediately entered the computer business after the war.________________
4. IBM always was the first-ranked computer producer._______________________
5. By the mid-1950s, IBM threatened to dominate the entire computer industry with its fast-selling Model 650._______________________________________________


Exercise 3. Complete the sentences according to the information in the text.

1. 
   IBM capitalized on its manufacturing expertise….
   

1. 
   to sell a full line of peripheral equipment.
   
2. 
   to produce a full line of peripheral equipment.
   
3. 
   to rent peripheral equipment.
   

2. 
   IBM also offered its computer….
   

1. 
   for sale for the first time.
   
2. 
   for improvement for the first time.
   
3. 
   for expert for the first time.
   

3. 
   The models 360 and 370 led the company…
   

1. 
   to bankruptcy
   
2. 
   to dominance of both US and international markets.
   
3. 
   to establishment of a new joint venture with Japanese companies.
   

4. 
   By the time IBM came out with its own models, mini computers…..
   

1. 
   became very popular everywhere.
   
2. 
   were sold especially abroad.
   
3. 
   Were about to be made obsolete another new product.
   

4. 
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