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WorksheetsComputer History Brainpop
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
If you wanted to enter data on a 19th century computer, you would do it with:
Disks
Gears
Cards
Tape
A programmable machine can:
Perform a number of different tasks
Do math faster than a person
Read multiple computer languages
Display data on a screen
What organization was the first to benefit from Herman Hollerith's machines?
The Union Pacific Railroad
The patent office
The IBM corporation
The U.S. Government
If you were one of the first people to operate ENIAC, what information would you likely have computed?
Planetary Movements
Bombing targets
Stock Prices
Census Data
Which of the following word pairs best symbolizes the ones and zeroes in binary code?
Sight and Sound
Yes and no
Red and blue
Want and need
What does a modern tablet computer have in common with Colossus and ENIAC?
They all use microprocessors to compute and store data
They all display information on a lit screen
All are mainly used for military applications
They all use electricity to represent information
What devices do microprocessors contain?
Calculators
Transistors
Gears
Tubes
Which of these terms best describes the average computer buyer in the 1960s?
Small business
Large institution (colleges, big business, government)
Elementary schools
Train enthusiast
How was the Apple I different from the computers that came before it?
It was designed for use by big corporations
It was designed for use in people's homes
It allowed users to communicate with one another online
It could perform more complex mathematical calculations
Compared to a home computer from 20 years ago, today's machines are:
Larger
More powerful
More expensive
Less complex
