Comp Term 1 Q1

The smallest kind of computer.

Designed for one user at a time.

Examples are personal computer, workstation, and embedded computer.

• Super Computer

• Mainframe Computer

• Microcomputer

The largest and fastest type of computer.

It can do millions of task at the same time.

It is used by governments and large companies

• Super Computer

• Mainframe Computer

• Microcomputer

It can handle and store large amount of data.

It can perform thousands of tasks at the same time.

• Super Computer

• Mainframe Computer

• Microcomputer

Is an electronic machine that changes data into information

• System

• Computer

• Machine

True or False

The components of the computer system are:

• - hardware - people

• - software - data

• TRUE

• FALSE

It is used to perform calculations with movable beads.

• Pascaline

• Abacus

• Analytical Engine

• Tabulating machine

Compute large numbers that use a punch card to program its task and has a memory called store and a processing unit called mill.

• Pascaline

• Abacus

• Analytical Engine

• Hollerith's Tabulating machine

A calculator made up of gears and wheels that is used to add and subtract numbers.

• Pascaline

• Abacus

• Analytical Engine

• Tabulating machine

It is used to calculate artillery firing tables in the United States army.

• EDVAC

• ENIAC

• Analytical Engine

• Apple 1

The first computer to solve science and math problems. Also the first computer to use a program saved in its memory.

• EDVAC

• ENIAC

• Hewlette Packard 9100A

• Apple 1