Computer Architecture - L2

In which year was the very first electronic digital computer created?

• 1999

• 2001

• 1921

• 1944

The name of the first digital electronic computer was...

• Ada Lovelace

• Oblivion

• Colossus

• Cullossus

The role of the colossus was to...

• To help make hospital machines

• To help break secret war codes during World War II

• To help break secret war codes during World War I

• To help solve maths problems

To help with processing Colossus used...

• Chips

• Valves

• Keyboards

• Microprocessors

The two problem with valves is that they were...

• Expensive

• Very Large

• Slow

• You needed thousands off them

Valves were replaced by ___________

After rewiring Colossus it had to be given the secret message to decode.  What was used to provide it with the message?

• Software

• Punched Paper Tape

• Files

• Punched Cellotape

The punched paper tape represents 0's and 1's. This type of data is know as...

• decimal

• binary

• hexadecimal

• English

Colossus could store data

• True

• False

Modern day computers use ________ to tell them what to do.