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WorksheetsHistory of Computers
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 22mins
What are abacus ?
a simple device for calculating, consisting of a frame with rows of wires or grooves along which balls slide
slips of ivory or other material divided into sections marked with digits, devised by John Napier and formerly used to facilitate multiplication and division.
a ruler with a sliding middle strip, marked with numerical scales and used for making quick calculations, especially multiplication and division.
What type of calculations could be performed using abacus ?
Simple calculations
Complicated calclutlations
Numbers from ______ to ______ were marked on a set of ivory sticks in Napier's bones.
(a)
The slide rule was even used by NASA engineers in the Apollo missions in the ________.
1920s
1960s
1940s
1860s
Who built Pascaline?
Stepped Reckoner
Schickard
Steve
Pascal
What led to the automation of machinery ?
(a)
Was the Analytical engine built ?
Yes
No
Chales Babbage was the first programmer
True
False
Analog Computers were the First General Purpose Computers
True
False
Alan Turing was regarded as the father of modern computer science
True
False
Which computer was a secret british computer?
Colossus
Hardvard Mark I
The Analythical Engine
If you were the owner of windows operating system , what features would you add in
windows and why ?
(a)
