Quiz #2 - History of Computers

______________ considered by many to be the earliest recorded calculating device.

• Internet

• hardware

• computer

• software

Who invented the Punch Card Tabulating Machine and Sorter?

• Dr. John Napier

• Dr. J, Presper Eckert

• Dr. John Mauchly

• Dr. Herman Hollerith

What do you call a glass tube that look similar to light bulbs which needed replacing constantly?

• Integrated Circuits

• Vacuum Tubes

• Transistor

• Microprocessor

It is the first general purpose electronic computer.

• Abacus

• ENIAC

• UNIVAC

• Punch Card

A miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material.

• Processor

• Vacuum Tubes

• Transistors

• Integrated Circuit

What generation began using transistors?

• Second-Generation

• First Generation

• Third-Generation

• Fourth-Generation

One major technological development of this generation are microprocessors.

• 2nd Generation

• 3rd Generation

• 1st Generation

• 4th Generation

In this generation, computers were smaller, more powerful, cheaper, more energy-efficient and more reliable.

• 1st Generation

• 2nd Generation

• 3rd Generation

• 4th Generation

In this generation, computer systems are going to be based on principles of Artificial Intelligence.

• 5th Generation

• 3rd Generation

• 2nd Generation

• 4th Generation

The history of computers is often referred to as _____________________.

• year of

• inventions

• generations

• none