History of computing

What is this?

• A cheese grater

• An abacus

• A game

• An early camera

What was special about the Stepped Reckoner?

• It could add and subtract, multiply and divide

• It used electricity

• It was made of plastic

• It could only add numbers up

Smaller computer parts allowed us to have what?

• home computers

• computers in rockets

• both

Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in a relay responsible for a malfunction, and removed it, calling it _______.

• Operating

• Cleaning

• Hacking

• Debugging

This woman was an important contributor to computer programming in the early days of high level computer languages.

• Ada Byron

• J. Kilby

• Francis Holberton

• Grace Hopper

What does the 'PC' stand for?

• Personal Computer

• Private Computer

• Posh Computer

• Petite Computer

The word "Computer" was first assigned to...

• A person who conducts calculations

• A person who is very loud

• A person who doesn't sleep

• A person who lies

Which type of computer is designed for one person to use at a time?

• personal computer
• server

When was the ENIAC invented?

• February 15, 1946

• November 14, 1946

• February 24, 1955

• October 5, 2001

When was the Mac OS Operating System brought to the public?

• 1984

• 1985

• 1990

• 1998