HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND COMPUTER BASICS

The ______________ was developed in 3000 BC, and was basically beads on rods to count and was used to calculate, has upper and lower deck.

• UNIVAC
• Abacus
• Vacuum Tubes
• Slide Rule

One of the earliest calculating devices was invented in 1642 and could only perform addition

• Stepped Reckoner
• Pascaline
• Difference Engine
• Analytical Engine

Recipient of Computer Science’s first “Man of the Year Award

• Jacquard Moore
• John Napier
• Charles Babbage
• Grace Hopper

What does the 'PC' stand for?

• Personal Computer
• Private Computer
• Posh Computer
• Petite Computer

What company did Paul Allen and Bill Gates start

• Microsoft
• Windows
• Apple
• Minecraft

What company did Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniack start?

• Apple
• Orange
• Microsoft
• Dell

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

• personal computer
• server

Who is considered the "Father of the Computer" for inventing a calculating machine called the Difference Engine?

• Tim Berners-Lee
• Barles Cabbage
• Bill Gates
• Charles Babbage

One of the first computers was an abacus. Invented in Babylon in 500 B.C., the abacus was made of string and beads.

• True
• False

The abacus was created by ______________________________

• Blaise Pascal
• The Babylonians
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Jospeh Marie Jaquard