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    The document is a test from a Brazilian university's English for Engineering course. It contains 4 sentences to translate about the history of personal computers. Sentence 1 discusses how PCs have become essential but only came into existence 30 years ago, with early models being unfriendly to users. Sentence 2 describes the Altair 8800 from 1975, one of the first PCs that had to be assembled and programmed with switches. Sentence 3 mentions other early milestones like the Apple I in 1976, the affordable TRS-80 in 1977, and the Apple II introducing computing to schools. Sentence 4 discusses portable PCs emerging in the 1980s and early personal digital assistants and network computers in the 1990s and 2000s

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    The document is a test from a Brazilian university's English for Engineering course. It contains 4 sentences to translate about the history of personal computers. Sentence 1 discusses how PCs have become essential but only came into existence 30 years ago, with early models being unfriendly to users. Sentence 2 describes the Altair 8800 from 1975, one of the first PCs that had to be assembled and programmed with switches. Sentence 3 mentions other early milestones like the Apple I in 1976, the affordable TRS-80 in 1977, and the Apple II introducing computing to schools. Sentence 4 discusses portable PCs emerging in the 1980s and early personal digital assistants and network computers in the 1990s and 2000s

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    UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ESPÍRITO SANTO – UFES

    DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA RURAL - ERU


    DISCIPLINA DE INGLÊS INSTRUMENTAL – ENG 06849
    PROVA DISCURSIVA DA AULA 01

    Professor: Alexandre Rosa dos Santos NOTA:______

    Data: ___/___/___ Assinatura do Prof.: _______________

    Graduando:_____________________________________________________

    1. Traduza as sentenças descritas abaixo:

    SENTENÇA 01 (2,5 pontos):

    A Brief History of PCs: It’s hard to imagine life without the personal computer. But 30 years ago they didn’t exist. Early
    models weren’t so user-friendly. Here are some of the milestones on the way to today’s slick machines.

    SENTENÇA 02 (2,5 pontos):

    1975: The Altair 8800. Debuts on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine. Users had to build it themselves, and enter
    Instructions via switches, since it had no keyboard.

    SENTENÇA 03 (2,5 pontos):

    1976: The first Apple, now in the Smithsonian


    1977: The low-priced. TRS-80, a.k.a. the “Trash-80”, makes computers affordable for the masses.
    1977: The first color computer, Apple II, is widely adopted in schools, introducing a generation of students to computing.
    1981: Osborne introduces the first “portable”. It weights in at 25 pounds.
    1981: With an Intel chip and Microsoft programming, the IBM PC quickly dominates the market, inspiring an army of
    clones.
    1982: A low price, plus lots of cool softwares, make Commodore 64 a top seller.

    SENTENÇA 04 (2,5 pontos):

    1983: The Compaq Portable is the first fully compatible IBM clone.
    1984: The Macintosh’s graphical user interface offers intuitive, mouse-driven operation at a reasonable price. Its pull-
    down menus and icons contrast sharply with the text-driven input of previous personal computers.
    1985-89: Portable PCs finally become portable, with lightweight, notebook – style laptops, including models by Radio
    Shack, Compaq and NEC.
    1993: One of the first personal digital assistants to recognize hand-writing on its small screen, the short-lived Apple.
    Newton: Is viewed as fatally flawed by some and ahead of its time by others.
    1995: Oracle’s Larry Ellison promotes the idea of a low-cost, limited-function $500
    “network computer”. But price cuts in full-fledged PCs make the initiative moot.
    1998: Apple rolls out its low-priced iMac, designed to give users easy access to Internet.
    2002: Eight manu-factures introduce versions of the Microsoft-designed Tablet PC, a Wi-
    Fi- equipped laptop you can write on.

    GOOD LUCK!
    “SCIENCE IS THE ART OF DISCOVERING THINGS ABOUT THE WORLD
    WORK”

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