1. Maurice Wilkes is known for suggesting a simplify the hardware. computer to greatly 2. The number of columns of characters or digits on a typical punched card was 3. Blaise Pascal was 4. The primary purpose for the COLOSSUS computer was to 5. The approximate weigh 6. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and illiam Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for years old when he invented his mechanical calculating machine. t of Mauchley and Eckert's computer named "ENIAC" was inventing the 7. The first PDP-1 computer had a main memory storage size of words (locations) 8. The first computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) was the Apple ebut it failed because it was