GE 10 - MODULE 2: HISTORY OF COMPUTER: BASIC COMPUTING PERIODS

A ________________ was an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages.

• Tally sticks

• Abacus

• Napier’s Bones

• Slide Rule

Is a mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing mathematical calculations.

• Abacus

• Tally sticks

• Napier’s Bones

• Slide Rule

It is an automatic loom controlled by punched cards.

• Jacquard Loom

• Stepped Reckoner

• Pascaline

• Slide Rule

A mechanical calculator invented by Thomas de Colmar in 1820.

• Slide Rule

• Stepped Reckoner

• Arithmometer

• Napier’s Bones

It is the first mechanical computer.

• Tabulating Machine

• Scheutzian Calculation Engine

• Arithmometer

• Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

The first programmable computer.

• Scheutzian Calculation Engine

• Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

• Z1

• ENIAC

 It was the first electronic general-purpose computer.

• Difference Engine and Analytical Engine

• Z1

• ENIAC

• Harvard Mark 1

The First Stored Program Computer.

• ENIAC

• EDVAC

• Z1

• UNIVAC 1

This is the first portable computer.

• ENIAC

• UNIVAC 1

•  Osborne 1

• Z1

The first computer company that was founded in 1949 by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

• UNIVAC

• Osborne Computer Corporation

• Electronic Controls Company

• EDVAC