- 1. was an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages.
A) Abacus
B) Tally Sticks
C) Napiers bone
D) Slide rule
- 2. is a mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing mathematical calculations.
A) Abacus
B) Tally Sticks
C) Napiers bone
D) Slide rule
- 3. Allowed the operator to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots by moving the rods around and placing them in specially cons icted boards.
A) Napiers bone
B) Pascaline
C) Slide rule
D) Abacus
- 4. Is based on Napier's ideas about logarithms. Used primarily for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, Trigonometry. Not normally used for addition or subtraction
A) Slide rule
B) Napiers bone
C) Pascaline
D) Abacus
- 5. It was its limitation to addition and subtraction. It is too expensive.
A) Napiers bone
B) Slide rule
C) Stepped reckoner
D) Pascaline
- 6. The first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine. The machine could perform the four basic mathematic functions. The first mass- produced calculating machine
A) Pascaline
B) Abacus
C) Arithmometer
D) Slide rule
- 7. Invented by "Herman Hollerith in 1890". To assist in summarizing information and accounting.
A) Tabulating machine
B) First computer programmer
C) Analytical engine
D) Scheutzian Calculator Engine
- 8. is a mechanical loom, invented by "joseph- Marie jacquard in 1881" It is an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
A) Jacquard loom
B) Arithmometer
C) First computer programmer
D) Tabulating machine
- 9. It an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Invented by "Charles Babbage in 1822 and 1834. It is the first mechanical computer
A) Difference engine or analytical engine
B) Scheutzian calculation engine
C) Tabulating machine
D) Jacquard loom
- 10. In 1840, Augusta Ada Byron suggests to Babbage that he use the binary system. She writes programs for the Analytical Engine.
A) First computer programmer
B) Tabulating machine
C) Arithmometer
D) Difference or analytical engine
- 11. Also known as "IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator_(ASCC)". Invented by "Howard H. Aiken in 1943". The first electro- mechanical computer.
A) ENIAC
B) Z1
C) Harvard Mark 1
D) EDVAC
- 12. -The first programmable computer Created by "Konrad Zuse in Germany from 1936 to 1938". To program the Z1 required that the user insert punch tape into a punch tape reader and all output was alsc generated through punch tape
A) ENIAC
B) Z1
C) UNIVAC 1
D) EDVAC
- 13. It was the first electronic digital computing device. Invented by Professor John Atanasoff" and graduate student. "Clifford Berry" at lowa State University between 1939 and 1942.
A) EDVAC
B) ENIAC
C) Harvard Mark 1
D) Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC)
- 14. stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the first electronic general-purpose computer. Completed in 1946. Developed by "John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly".
A) EDVAC
B) UNIVAC 1
C) ENIAC
D) Osborne 1
- 15. was the first commercial computer. Designed by " John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly"
A) Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC)
B) EDVAC
C) Osborne 1
D) UNIVAC 1
- 16. stands for Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. The First Stored Program Computer. Designed by "Von Neumann in1952". It has a memory to hold both a stored program as well as data.
A) Osborne 1
B) EDVAC
C) UNIVAC
D) ENIAC
- 17. the first portable computer. Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation
A) Z1
B) EDVAC
C) UNIVAC
D) Osborne 1
- 18. The first computer company. Founded in 1949 by "John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
A) Pre-mechanical
B) Electronic Controls Company
C) Osborne 1
D) EDVAC
- 19. is the earliest age of information technology. It can be defined as the time between 3000B.C. and 1450A.D. When humans first started communicating
A) Osborne 1
B) Z1
C) Pre-mechanical
D) Electronic computer company
- 20. Is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors. The mechanical age can be defined as the time between 1450 and 1840
A) Mechanical
B) Electromechanical
C) Electronic
D) Pre-mechanical
- 21. Can be defined as the time between 1840 and 1940. These are the beginnings of telecommunication.
A) Electromechanical
B) Mechanical
C) Electronic
D) Pre-mechanical
- 22. age is what we currently live in. It can be defined as the time between 1940 and right now.
A) Electronic
B) Pre-mechanical
C) Electromechanical
D) Mechanical
- 23. created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
A) Automatic Digital computer or Mark 1
B) Telegraph
C) Telephone
D) The first radio
- 24. was created in the early 1800s.
A) Morse code
B) Mark 1
C) Telephone
D) Telegraph
- 25. was created by Samuel Morse in 1835.
A) Telephone
B) Telegraph
C) Mark 1
D) Morse code
- 26. developed by Guglielmo Marconi in 1894
A) Morse code
B) Mark 1
C) The first radio
D) Telephone
- 27. In the United States was the Mark 1 created by Harvard University around 1940
A) EDVAC
B) Osborne 1
C) Automatic digital computer
D) Telephone
- 28. The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous, taking up entire rooms.
A) 1st generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 4th generation
D) 2nd generation
- 29. Transistors replaced vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers.
A) 4th generation
B) 1st generation
C) 2nd generation
D) 3rd generation
- 30. moved from cryptic binary machine language to symbolic, or assembly, languages, which allowed programmers to specify instructions in words.
A) 2nd generation
B) 1st generation
C) 4th generation
D) 3rd generation
- 31. Transistors were miniaturized and placed on silicon chips, called semiconductors, which drastically increased the speed and efficiency of computers. It could carry out instructions in billionths ofa second. Much smaller and cheaper compared to the second-generation computers.
A) 4th generation
B) 3rd generation
C) 1st generation
D) 2nd generation
- 32. The microprocessor brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousands of integrated circuits were built onto a single silicon chip.
A) 3rd generation
B) 4th generation
C) 5th generation
D) 1st generation
- 33. As these small computers became more powerful, they could be linked together to form networks, which eventually led to the development of the Internet.
A) 4th generation
B) 1st generation
C) 2nd generation
D) 3rd generation
- 34. (AI). Still in development. The use of parallel processing and superconductors is helping to make artificial intelligence a reality.
A) 2nd generation
B) 4th generation
C) 1st generation
D) 5th generation
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