History of Computers

When and who started using the Abacus?

• 3000 years ago the Greeks

• 5000 years ago the Greeks

• 5000 years ago in Babylon

• 2000 years ago in Babylon

John Napier in 1714 invented what to find solutions to mathematical calculations?

• Algorithms

• Logarithms

• Logic testing

• Programming

Blaise Pascal invented what in 1645?

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz in 1612 invented a machine called what?

• Reckoner

• Stepped machine

• Stepped Reckoner

• Reckoner machine

In 1810 Joseph-Marie Jacquard had the idea of using what to control his weaving looms.

Charles Babbage in the 19th Century is revered for inventing what?

• Modern electronic digital computer

• Non electric computer

Lady Augusta Ada is recognised as what?

What were the developments that Tommy Flowers and Alan turning create?

• Colossus programmable computer

• Colossus computer

• 0 and 1 language for computers

• Program for computers

John Vincent Atanasoff developed the 0 and 1 language for computers which was called what?

Howard Aiken in 1944 created what weighing 35 tons and having 500 miles of wires.

• Mathematical data computer

• Automatic sequence controlled calculator