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A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Now you can check if you know the history of computers?
Author:
podtalje
| 3rd June 2013 |
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The first use of the word computer which referred to a person who carried out calculations, was recorded in?
1613
1178
1935
1833
In 1801 a technology defining woven patterns was introduced. It was an important step in the development of computers, because it can be viewed as a limited form of programmability. Which technology did they use?
magnetic memory
punched cards
solid-state disk
vacuum tubes
A theoretical computing machine which formalized the concept of the algorithm and can calculate anything that is computable, no matter the complexity, was called?
Micro Machine
Alan Machine
General Purpose Machine
Turing Machine
George Stibitz is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. What kind of circuits for performing arithmetic operations he introduced?
quantum
decimal
hexadecimal
binary
World's first electronic digital computer, albeit not programmable, was called
Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC)
Z3
IBM
ENIAC
The first general purpose electronic computer was the ENIAC. It weighed more than?
5 short tones (4,5 t)
350 pounds (158 kg)
2000 pounds (907 kg)
30 short tons (27 t)
Computers using vacuum tubes as their electronic elements were in use throughout the 1950s, but by the 1960s they had been largely replaced by which smaller, faster and more reliable technology?
Resistors
Transistors
Capacitors
Diodes
Which invention from the 1970s, also known as microchips, paved the way for computers as we know them today.
Mechanical calculator
Integrated circuit
Analytical engine
Vacuum tubes
Modern computers implement a processing unit, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage, and input and output mechanisms. This architecture was defined in 1945 and is called
Moore's law
Amdahl's law
Von Neumann architecture
The first single-chip CPU, or a microprocessor, where all of the necessary CPU components were put onto a single microchip, was?
Intel 8086
ZX Spectrum
Intel 4004
Motorola 6800
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