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WorksheetsHistory Of Computers
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
Who is regarded as the father of modern computer science in the 20th Century?
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Ada Lovelace
Clifford E. Berry
What was invented by Charles Babbage?
(a)
What was the first high level language called which, later developed into COBOL?
Boolean Algebra
Java
FORTRAN
FLOW-MATIC
A secret British computer designed to break the German wartime codes during World War-II
Harvard Mark-I
The Hollerith Machine
Colossus
ENIAC
Identify the machine.
Jacquard
Loom
Harvard Mark-I
UNIVAC
Microprocessor
What was the first smartphone released in 1993 where customers could use the touchscreens to select phone numbers?
(a)
Devices like phones, household appliances that contain very small computers that perform limited functions specific to that device
(a)
Statement 1: Mainframe is a powerful version of a server capable of handling huge applications and data processing.
Statement 2: Third Generation computers developed in 1960s were made up of vacuum tubes.
Both statement 1 and statement 2 are correct.
Statement 1 is correct and Statement 2 is incorrect .
Statement 1 is incorrect
and
Statement 2 is correct.
Both statement 1 and statement 2 are incorrect.
Which is the first web browser released in 1994?
(a)
Which operating system is shown here?
(a)
Which was the first video game developed in 1958?
(a)
The fifth generation computers developed in 1980s used _______ and ________.
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Vacuum
Tubes
Microprocessor
Punched Cards
Simple mechanical devices developed in 17th Century to assist in tedious and repetitive calculations.
Napier's Bones
Slide Rule
Pascaline
Stepped
Reckoner
Developed in 6th Century identify this device used to aid calculations.
(a)
Who is credited with inventing E-Mail in 1971?
Bon Kahn
Vinton Gray Cerf
Ray Tomlinson
Charley Kline
