Evolution of Computers

Q. The Greek island of _______ is the birth land of Abacus

• Crete

• Salamis

• Rhodes

• Corfu

Q. The ________ device consists of rods to perform calculations.

• Napier's Bones
• Pascaline

• Abacus

• None of the above

Q. ________ was the first gear - driven calculator

• Leibniz Calculator

• Abacus

• Napier's Bones

• Pascaline

Q. Napier also invented the ______ and ______ to transform multiplication problems into addition problems.

• rings and rods

• side rule and used logs

• dials and tables

• none of the above

Q. IBM created the Tabulating Machine.

• True

• False

Q. EDSAC stands for _________.

• Epigraphical Device for Storage And Calculation

• Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

Q. Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical calculator?

• Blaise Pascal

• Charles Babbage

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Alan Turing

Q. _________ was the first commercially available electronic computer.

• UNIVAC 1

• EDSAC

• ENIAC

• None of the above

Q. The ________ was originally built to help the army launch missiles more accurately

• ENIAC

• EDSAC

• UNIVAC 1

• Harvard Mark 1

Q. The _________ could perform basic arithmetic operations upto thousands.

• Harvard Mark 1

• Pascaline

• Difference engine

• Abacus