History of Computers

The ______________ was developed in 3000 BC, and was basically beads on rods to count and was used to calculate, has upper and lower deck.

• UNIVAC
• Abacus
• Vacuum Tubes
• Slide Rule

First fully electronic digital computer built in the U.S.  It was created at the University of Pennsylvania 

• UNIVAC
• Abacus
• Vacuum Tubes
• Slide Rule

Recipient of Computer Science’s first “Man of the Year Award

• Jacquard Moore
• John Napier
• Charles Babbage
• Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper found a moth stuck  in a relay responsible for a malfunction, and removed it,  calling it _______.

• Operating
• Cleaning
• Hacking
• Debugging

One of the earliest calculating devices was invented in 1642 and could only perform addition

• Stepped Reckoner
• Pascaline
• Difference Engine
• Analytical Engine

This first generation computer was built by Mauchly and Eckert and used the first computer language, C10.

• ENIAC
• EDVAC
• CPU
• UNIVAC

This woman was an important contributor to computer programming in the early days of high level computer languages.

• Ada Byron
• J. Kilby
• Francis Holberton
• Grace Hopper

This invention replaced the transistor and led to the development of third generation computers.  Processing speed increased to millions of calculations per second.

• Vacuum tube
• Integrated circuits
• CPU
• Cicuitry

Who invented the 'Difference Engine'?

• Mr MacGregor
• Charles Babbage
• Steve Jobs
• Charles Totten

5000 Years Ago One of first tools used to express numbers was the _______________________.

• Maracca
• Abacus
• Lines on Stone
• Sticks in a Pile