History of Computers

History of Computers

Research...

• Use the following link to research and find out who invented the first computer, what was Alan Turing famous for and discover how computers were a revolution in the 1940s...

• https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

Multiple Choice

Who invented the Z3 computer?

• Konrad Zuse

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• Tommy Flowers

Multiple Choice

What was Alan Truing famous for?

• Invented the first computer

• Cracked the Nazis Enigma machine

• Founded the company HP

• Founded Facebook

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the computer which cracked Nazi code in WW2?

• IBM

• Enigma

• Colossus

• HP

Multiple Choice

Who was the person behind the basic operations of a computer of Input, Process and Output?

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• John Von Neumann

• Mark Zuckerberg

Multiple Choice

In 1943, the ______ computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. Because of its electronic, as opposed to electromechanical, technology, it is over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer

• ENIAC

• HP

• IBM

• ED

COMPUTING - TOP PEOPLE IN HISTORY

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