Computing Devices - 20th Century

The Mark I computer was invented by who

• Herman Hollerith

• Howard Adkin

• Joseph jacquard

• Thomas Kurtz

EDVAC stands for

• Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator

• Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

• Electronic Data Variable Automatic Calculator

• Electronic Data Variable Automatic Computer

This machine uses more than 18,000 vacuum tubes

• Univac

• Basic

• Fortran

• ENIAC

In 1801 who invented a punch card device that controlled the weaving pattern on a loom.

• Bill Parker

• Joseph Jacquard

• Sam Hendrix

• Sarah Liebnitz

What was the first commerical computer was produced in 1951.

• Transistors

• Mark I

• UNIVAC

• Roboto

What is a high-end personal computer connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems?

• Netbook

• Workstation

• Palmtop

• UNIVAC

In the 1960, Kemeny and Kurtz wrote what language that was used by most of the first microcomputers

• Intergrated Circuits

• Cobol

• Fortran

• Basic

What replaced transistors in the 1960's

• UNIVAC

• Cobol

• Integrated Circuts

• ENIAC

What replaced vacuum tubes in the 1950's

• Cobol

• Fortran

• Basic

• Transistors

Who invented the EDVAC

• Blaise Pascal

• John Von Neumann

• Thomas Kurtz

• Charles Babbage