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WorksheetsComputer History-Brain Pop
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
If you wanted to enter data on a 19th century computer, you would do it with:
Disks
Gears
Cards
Tape
A programmable machine can:
Do math faster than a person
Perform a number of different tasks
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 1960's?
Small business
Large Institutions
Elementary school
Amateur hobbyist
How was the Apple I different from the computers that came before it?
It was designed for use by corporations.
It was designed for use in people's homes.
It could perform more complex mathematical calculations.
It allowed users to communicate with one another online.
Compared to a home computer from 20 years ago, today's machines are:
Larger
More powerful
More expensive
Less complex
