Computer Generations

What did first generation computers use for circuitry?

• transistors

• vacuum tubes

• integrated circuits

• microprocessors

What did second generation computers use for circuitry?

• transistors

• vacuum tubes

• integrated circuits

• microprocessor

What was the main technology used in third generation computers?

• vacuum tubes

• integrated circuits

• microprocessors

• artificial intelligence

What was the main technology used in fourth generation computers?

• vacuum tubes

• integrated circuits

• microprocessors

• artificial intelligence

Fifth generation computers are based on which of the following?

• vacuum tubes

• integrated circuits

• microprocessors

• artificial intelligence

The Pascaline was developed by …………..

• Blaise Pascal

• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

• Charles Babbage

• Herman Hollerith

The Analytical Engine was designed by

• Blaise Pascal

• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

• Charles Babbage

• Herman Hollerith

Harvard Mark I was

• a manual calculating device

• a semi-automatic calculating device

• an electromechanical calculating device

• an electronic computer

A computer developed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.

• ABC

• Macintosh

• ENIAC

• Z3

What are the examples of electromechanical calculating devices?

• The Tabulating machine and Harvard Mark I

• ENIAC, EDVAC

• EDSAC, ENIAC

• EDVAC, UNIVAC I