1. Computers could replace people in dull routine work.
2. The program was a set of instructions that might also include data to be processed.
3. Computer-controlled robots had to increase the productivity of industry.
4. They could help in making different decisions.
5. The pupils might work with computers at the lessons.
6. Electric pulses could move at the speed of light.
7. Storage devices had to have capacities for the input, output data and programs and for intermediate results.
8. Business minicomputers could perform to 100 million operations per second.
9. In order to solve scientific problems researchers had to deal with the language of science — mathematics.
10. Programmers had to write application programs in a way that computers could understand.