HPC3- APPLIED BUSINESS TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES QUIZ 1

It is the earliest age of information technology. It can be defined as the time between 3000B.C. and 1450A.D.

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One of the earliest forms of writing used by the ancient Sumerians, who lived in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 3500-1900 BCE.

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is a type of paper-like material that was used in ancient Egypt and other parts of the ancient world as a writing surface.

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is a simple but highly effective manual calculating tool that has been used for centuries, especially in Asia. It consists of a series of rods or wires, each containing a set of movable beads.

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It is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors. The mechanical age can be defined as the time between 1450 and 1840.

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(a)   also known as the Pascalina or Pascal's Calculator, was one of the earliest mechanical calculators, designed and built by the French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in the 17th century.

_______ also known as the _________ Calculator, was one of the earliest mechanical calculators, designed and built by the French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in the 17th century.

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It was an early mechanical general-purpose computer design conceived by the British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage in the 1830s and 1840s.

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Which was the first electronic general-purpose computer?

• Analytic Engine

• Atanasoff-Berry Computer

• Difference Engine

• ENIAC

Who invented the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator?

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Charles Babbage

• Herman Hollerith

• Howard H. Aiken