Computer History

Who created the first mechanical computer?

• Steve Wozniak

• Charles Babbage

• Ada Lovelace

• Herman Hollerith

The first electric programmable computer is known as ___.

• Colossus

• Abacus

• Eniac

• Turing Machine

A series of 0 and 1 are known as ___.

• tertiary

• trinary

• binary

• programming

The first computer programmer is known as ___.

• Charles Babbage

• Ada Lovelace

• Steve Jobs

• Alan Turing

The original founders of apple are ___.

• Steve Wozniac and Charles Babbage

• Steve Jobs and Herman Hollerith

• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac

• Herman Hollerith and Charles Babbage

A programmable machine can :

• perform a number of task

• do math faster than a person

• read multiple computer languages

• display data on a screen

What organization was the first to benefit from Herman Hollerith's machines?

• the Union Pacific Railroad

• the patent office

• the IBM corporation

• the U.S. government

If you were one of the first people to operate ENIAC, what information would you likely have computed?

• Bombing targets

• Planetary movements

• Stock prices

• Census data

Which of the following word pairs best symbolizes the ones and zeroes in binary code?

• sight and sound

• yes and no

• red and blue

• want and need

The first generations of computers contains__.

• IBM

• microprocessors

• vacuum tubes

• transistors