Deck 4: A History of Computing Devices: From Calculators to Microcomputers

Question 1

……………..is a digital computer system that is controlled by a stored program that uses a microprocessor, a programmable read-only memory (ROM) and a random-access memory (RAM).

A)Minicomputers
B)The microcomputer
C)Medium-size computers
D)Large computers

Answer 1

The microcomputer

Question 2

The …………..defines the instructions to be executed by the computer while RAM is the functional equivalent of computer memory.

A)ARPANET
B)ROM
C)Silicon chips
D)Metals

Answer 2

ROM

Question 3

The Apple IIe, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Genie III are examples of microcomputers and are essentially …………..generation devices.

A)First
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Answer 3

fourth

Question 4

……………..have from 4k to 64k storage location and are capable of handling small, single-business application such as sales analysis, inventory, billing and payroll.

A)Microcomputers
B)Minicomputers
C)Medium-size computers
D)Large computers

Question 5

In the……………, the growing demand for a smaller stand-alone machine brought about the manufacture of the minicomputer, to handle tasks that large computers could not perform economically.

A)1960s
B)1970s.
C)1970s
D)1980s

Question 6

……………were well known in the 1940s although they are now uncommon.

A)Analog computers
B)Digital computers
C)Hybrid computers
D)Minicomputers

Question 7

………………., Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz were among mathematicians who designed and implemented calculators that were capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division included.

A)Wilhelm Schickhard
B)Clifford Berry
C)Ray Tomlinson
D)Burton Stein

Question 8

The first multi-purpose or programmable computing device was probably Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which was begun in …………….but never completed.

A)1823
B)1827
C)1832
D)1865

Question 9

In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called the Analytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partially completed.

A)1842
B)1852
C)1862
D)1872

Question 10

………………, together with Ada Lovelace recognized several important programming techniques, including conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.

A)Herman Hollerith
B)George Scheutz
C)Babbage
D)J.V.Atanasoff

Question 11

A second early electronic machine was Colossus, designed by ……………….for the British military in 1943.

A)Alan Turing
B)Eckert
C)Mauchly
D)John von Neumann

Question 12

The first general purposes programmable electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of………………..

A)Pennsylvania
B)Cambridge
C)London
D)Harvard

Question 13

In 1964, …………….developed the CDC 6600, which was the first architecture to use functional parallelism.

A)Larry Augustin
B)George B.Selden
C)Seymour Cray
D)Bob Kahn

Question 14

……………….of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).

A)Martin Richards
B)George B.Selden
C)Todd Anderson
D)Larry Augustin

Question 15

In 1970 …………………of Bell Labs developed yet another simplification of CPL called simply B, in connection with an early implementation of the UNIX operating system.

A)Ken Thompson
B)George B.Selden
C)Larry Augustin
D)Lawrence Roberts

Question 16

………………….invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which introduced electronic binary logic in the late 1930s.

A)Lawrence Roberts
B)Howard Aiken
C)George B.Selden
D)John Atanasoff

Question 17

…………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally named the IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence.

A)Bob Kahn's
B)George B.Selden's
C)Lawrence Roberts'
D)Howard Aiken's

Question 18

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was displayed to the public on February 14, 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of…………………..

A)Georgia
B)Massachusetts
C)California
D)Pennsylvania

Question 19

The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator was invented in…………...

A)California
B)Harvard
C)Massachusetts
D)Germany

Question 20

…………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to 1938, is said to be the world's 'first programmable calculating machine'.

A)Peter Scott
B)Lawrence Roberts
C)Ray Tomlinson
D)Korad Zuse

Question 21

…………..built the Z4, a relay computer with a mechanical memory of unique design, during the war years in Berlin.

A)Korad Zuse
B)Eduard Stiefel
C)Dr. Heinz
D)George B.Selden

Question 22

During the World war II, a young German engineer, ……………studied the application of electronic analog circuits for the guidance and control system of liquid-propellant rockets and developed a special purpose analog computer, the 'Mischgerat' and integrated it into the rocket.

A)Peter Scott
B)George B.Selden
C)Lawrence Roberts
D)Helmut Hoelzer

Question 23

The Colossus was designed and constructed at the Post Office Research Laboratories at Dollis Hill in North ……………..in 1943 to help Bletchley Park in decoding intercepted German telegraphic messages.

A)Oxford
B)Harvard
C)Cambridge
D)London

Question 24

………………, supercomputer and Internet pioneer, was born in 1954, in Nigeria, Africa.

A)Philip Emeagwali
B)George B.Selden
C)Todd Anderson
D)Larry Augustin

Question 25

A computer ……………is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it.

A)printer
B)ICT
C)ARPANET
D)scanner