Open the brackets using the Past Simple Tense. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian

1) Computers (to appear) comparatively recently. 2) In 1940s computers (to evolve) tremendously. 3) By the end of the 1960s, transistors themselves were replaced by tiny integrated circuit boards and a new generation of computers (to be) on the market. 4) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries scientists (to develop) many easy ways of calculating. 5) They (to invent) logarithm tables, calculus, and the basis for the modern slide during this period. 6) The first calculating machine (to appear) in the early 1800s and soon after that Charles Babbage (to design) a machine which (to become) the basis for building today’s computers. 7) A hundred years later, scientists (to build) the first analog computer but the first digital computer was not completed until 1944.

3. Make up sentences using the following words. Don’t forget about word order in English.

1) In 1952, took, a major computing company, a decision, of the business, to get out, of making mainframe computers.

2) Believed, that, they, there was, only, a market, mainframes, for four, in the whole world.

3) IBM, company, that, was.

4) reversed, the following, they, year, their decision.

5) IBM, in 1980, decided, that, market, there was, for 250,000 PCs.

6) so, set up, they, a special, to develop, team, the first IBM PC.

7) went, on sale, it, in 1981, set, and, standard, a world-wide, for IBM- compatibility.