
Early Programming
Authored by Ron F.
Computers
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A famous example of early programmable machines, before the development of computers, was in ___
printing presses
food production
ballistics range tables
textile manufacturing
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a programmable textile loom, which he first demonstrated in ___
1751
1801
1851
1901
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In Jacquard's programmable textile loom, punch cards were arranged ___
in vertical stacks
in long chains
on top of the fabric
by complexity
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
By the 1920s, plugboards in tabulating machines were made ___
permanent
swappable
mandatory
entirely of plastic
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When was the ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, completed?
1936
1946
1956
1966
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