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History of Computers

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are abacus ?

a)

a simple device for calculating, consisting of a frame with rows of wires or grooves along which balls slide

b)

slips of ivory or other material divided into sections marked with digits, devised by John Napier and formerly used to facilitate multiplication and division.

c)

a ruler with a sliding middle strip, marked with numerical scales and used for making quick calculations, especially multiplication and division.

2.

What type of calculations could be performed using abacus ?

a)

Simple calculations

b)

Complicated calclutlations

3.

Numbers from ______ to ______ were marked on a set of ivory sticks in Napier's bones.

(a)  

4.

The slide rule was even used by NASA engineers in the Apollo missions in the ________.

a)

1920s

b)

1960s

c)

1940s

d)

1860s

5.

Who built Pascaline?

a)

Stepped Reckoner

b)

Schickard

c)

Steve

d)

Pascal

6.

What led to the automation of machinery ?

(a)  

7.

Was the Analytical engine built ?

a)

Yes

b)

No

8.

Chales Babbage was the first programmer

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Analog Computers were the First General Purpose Computers

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Alan Turing was regarded as the father of modern computer science

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Which computer was a secret british computer?

a)

Colossus

b)

Hardvard Mark I

c)

The Analythical Engine

12.

If you were the owner of windows operating system , what features would you add in

windows and why ?

(a)