Early Programming

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A famous example of early programmable machines, before the development of computers, was in ___

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textile manufacturing

Front

Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a programmable textile loom, which he first demonstrated in ___

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1801

Front

In Jacquard's programmable textile loom, punch cards were arranged ___

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in long chains

Front

Punched cards were first used to help tabulate which Census?

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the 1890 US Census

Front

By 1906, different calculations could be performed by Hollerith's machine by accessing ___

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a wire and socket "plugboard"

Front

By the 1920s, plugboards in tabulating machines were made ___

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swappable

Front

When was the ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, completed?

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1946

Front

Physically wiring up the ENIAC and getting the program to run could take upwards of ___

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three weeks

Front

By the late 1940s, electronic memory was used to store a program entirely in memory in machines called ___

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stored-program computers

Front

Unifying a computer's program and data into a single shared memory is called ___

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the Von Neumann Architecture