QUIZ # 2
History and Evolution
of Computers
TEST 1
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING
IMAGES
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TEST 2
IDENTIFY OR FILL IN THE
MISSING WORD OF THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENT
1984 :
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______________________
launched (during the Super
Bowl), the first successful
mouse-driven computer
with a graphic user
interface
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Designed in 1979 by William
Moggridge, and was used by
NASA in the space shuttle
program
It came with a five-inch screen
A large collection of bundled
software programs
It contains a battery Pack
Can be placed on a lap and can
carried any where.
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The ___________ minicomputer
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was designed & built from
1965 to 1980
It was the first mass market
mini-computer developed for
educational purpose
Additionally it possesses two
attributes i.e. continuing
interest in it's architecture and
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The famous
_______________________ computer,
the first commercial (that is, mass
produced) computer. In the 50's, it
was also the first computer to
employ magnetic tape. Many
people still confuse a picture of a
reel-to-reel tape recorder with a
picture of a mainframe computer.
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The forefather of today's all-electronic
digital computers is
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_______________________ built at the
University of Pennsylvania between
1943 and 1945 by two professors, John
Mauchly and the 24 year old J.
Presper Eckert, who got funding from
the war department after promising
they could build a machine that would
replace all the "computers", meaning
the women who were employed
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Harvard Universitys ________________________
was the first programmable digital computer
made in the U.S. But it was not a purely
electronic computer it was constructed out of
switches, relays, rotating shafts, and clutches.
The machine weighed 5 tons, incorporated
500 miles of wire, was 8 feet tall and 51 feet
long, and had a 50 ft rotating shaft running its
length, turned by a 5 horsepower electric
motor. It ran non-stop for 15 years, sounding
like a roomful of ladies knitting. It was built as
a partnership between Harvard and IBM in
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German _______________________________
had built a sequence of general
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purpose computers in Nazi Germany.
The first, the Z1, was built between
1936 and 1938 in the parlor of his
parent's home. His third machine, the
Z3, built in 1941, was probably the first
operational, general-purpose,
programmable (that is, software
controlled) digital computer. He
reinvented Babbage's concept of
_____________________________ is the
The Father of Computers
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1822 : His great invention Difference
engine was to perform mathematical
calculations
It was fully automatic and commanded by
a fixed instruction program
1842 The Analytical Engine was a
automatic machine. It could do 60 addition
per minute
The idea of analytical engine didnt take
physical form but served as a base for
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In 1801 Frenchman
______________ invented a
power loom that could
base its weave (and hence
the design on the fabric)
upon a pattern
automatically read from
punched wooden cards,
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In 1642 ________________________ , at
age 19, invented the Pascaline as 0
an aid for his father who was a
tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this
gear-driven one-function
calculator (it could only add) but
couldn't sell many because of their
exorbitant cost and because they
really weren't that accurate (at that
time it was not possible to fabricate
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