RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
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Test your memory power by filling in the answers
A GAME OF COMPUTING HISTORY KNOWLEDGE to each clue in the horizontal spaces below.
If all your answers are correct, the letters in each
highlighted box will spell out the winning word
vertically at the end.
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WINNING WORD CLUE people and events.
T h e na m e o f a very f am o u s co mpute r.
1
Jacquard worked to ‘program’ one of these.
2
The Atlas computer had 60,000 of these.
3
This company made the Pegasus computer.
4
‘Susi’ used these type of cards.
Busicom’s HL21 was 5
this type of calculator.
6
Core store is a type of of this.
7
Tommy Flowers designed this computer.
8
This computer scientist was always a bit of an enigma.
9
He had a lead role in building EDSAC.
10
The aircraft with an early Elliott computer on board.
11
12
Grace was the grandmother of this computer language.
13
This computer language run on a Sperry Univac computer.
14
This device was also known as a counting frame. ALL DONE?
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15
This company built the LEO 1 computer. knowledge with us by
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