Computer History Quiz

According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a chip will double every:

• 2 years

• 4 years

• 3 years

• 1 year

The IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies) computer was started in what year?

• 1943

• 1952

• 1947

• 1946

The first computer, ENIAC, had memory that:

• Only stored data

• Stored both programs and data

• Only stored programs

• Was electronic tubes

According to the Von Neumann principle, data input into a computer is performed by:

• Punching holes in paper tape

• Electromagnetic pulses

• Electrical pulses

• Punching holes in cards and inputting manually

The first computer, ENIAC, could perform:

• 6000 additions per second

• 8000 additions per second

• 5000 additions per second

• 7000 additions per second

The IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies) computer was programmed using:

• Setting positions of switches and connecting cables

• Based on Turing's principle

• Based on the Von Neumann principle

• Based on the Von Neumann/Turing principle

The first computer, ENIAC, used which of the following components?

• Electronic tubes

• Field-effect transistors

• Semiconductor ICs

• Bipolar transistors

According to the Von Neumann principle:

• Memory has addresses and memory cell data changes according to each computer program instruction.

• Memory is addressed by each memory cell without regard to its content

• Memory has memory cell addresses changing according to each instruction but the content cannot change

• Memory is addressed by each memory cell and depends on the content of the memory cell

An example of firmware in a computer is:

• Driver program for the computer's graphics card

• Control program in the ROM BIOS

• User application software

• MS DOS operating system

The first generation of computers is called the generation of:

• Vacuum tube computers

• ULSI SoC microchip computers

• Transistor computers

• VLSI microchip computers