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Early Programming

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A famous example of early programmable machines, before the development of computers, was in ___

a)

printing presses

b)

food production

c)

ballistics range tables

d)

textile manufacturing

2.

Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a programmable textile loom, which he first demonstrated in ___

a)

1751

b)

1801

c)

1851

d)

1901

3.

In Jacquard's programmable textile loom, punch cards were arranged ___

a)

in vertical stacks

b)

in long chains

c)

on top of the fabric

d)

by complexity

4.

Punched cards were first used to help tabulate which Census?

a)

the 1809 US Census

b)

the 1880 Canadian Census

c)

the 1890 US Census

d)

the 1908 Canadian Census

5.

By 1906, different calculations could be performed by Hollerith's machine be accessing ___

a)

a programmable integrated circuit

b)

a hidden stack of punch cards

c)

a wire and socket "plugboard"

d)

an array of vacuum tubes

6.

By the 1920s, plugboards in tabulating machines were made ___

a)

permanent

b)

swappable

c)

mandatory

d)

entirely of plastic

7.

When was the ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, completed?

a)

1936

b)

1946

c)

1956

d)

1966

8.

Physically wiring up the ENIAC and getting the program to run could take upwards of ___

a)

three hours

b)

three days

c)

three weeks

d)

three months

9.

By the late 1940s, electronic memory was used to store a program entirely in memory in machines called ___

a)

swappable plugboard computers

b)

stored-program computers

c)

single-use computers

d)

Hollerith machines

10.

Unifying a computer's program and data into a single shared memory is called ___

a)

the Turing Algorithm

b)

the Jacquard Architecture

c)

the Hollerith Algorithm

d)

the Von Neumann Architecture

11.

What was the nickname of the very first Von Neumann Architecture stored program computer?

a)

Baby

b)

Fat Man

c)

Little Boy

d)

Jarvice

12.

When and where was the very first Von Neumann Architecture stored program computer constructed?

a)

in 1944, at the University of Oxford

b)

in 1946, at Stanford University

c)

in 1948, at the University of Manchester

d)

in 1950, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

13.

Almost all computers had a punch card reader, well into what decade?

a)

1960s

b)

1970s

c)

1980s

d)

1990s

14.

A common trick to keep punch cards in order was to draw a diagonal line on the side of the card stack called ___

a)

'crossing'

b)

'striping'

c)

'lining'

d)

'marking'

15.

The largest program ever punched into punch cards was completed in what year?

a)

1955

b)

1965

c)

1975

d)

1985

16.

The US Air Force's SAGE system used a whopping 62,500 punch cards, which is equivalent to roughly ___

a)

5 Bytes of data

b)

5 kB of data

c)

5 MB of data

d)

5 GB of data

17.

Using huge panels full of switches and buttons to input data to a computer was called ___

a)

panel programming

b)

toggle programming

c)

switch programming

d)

button programming

18.

Launched in 1975, what was the first commercially successful home computer?

a)

the Apple II

b)

the Tandy TRS-80

c)

the Commodore PET

d)

the ALTAIR 8800

19.

What was the 1975 selling price of the Altair 8800?

a)

$80

b)

$400

c)

$1000

d)

$4000

20.

How were the binary opcodes and instructions entered into the ALTAIR 8800?

a)

plugboard

b)

punched paper

c)

toggle switches

d)

keyboard