Early Programming

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

• printing presses

• food production

• ballistics range tables

• textile manufacturing

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

• 1751

• 1801

• 1851

• 1901

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

• in vertical stacks

• in long chains

• on top of the fabric

• by complexity

Punched cards were first used to help tabulate which Census?

• the 1809 US Census

• the 1880 Canadian Census

• the 1890 US Census

• the 1908 Canadian Census

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

• a programmable integrated circuit

• a hidden stack of punch cards

• a wire and socket "plugboard"

• an array of vacuum tubes

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

• permanent

• swappable

• mandatory

• entirely of plastic

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

• 1936

• 1946

• 1956

• 1966

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

• three hours

• three days

• three weeks

• three months

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

• swappable plugboard computers

• stored-program computers

• single-use computers

• Hollerith machines

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

• the Turing Algorithm

• the Jacquard Architecture

• the Hollerith Algorithm

• the Von Neumann Architecture