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History of Modern Computers Test Part 2
History of Modern Computers Test Part 2
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History of Modern Computers and Computing devices
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This is a word processor program capable of storing multiple versions of documents
Project Xanadu
Microsoft Word
Excel
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The ENIAC machine was designed by the USA army to calculate what?
Bullet Velocity
Ship positions
Artillery Firing Tables
Impact of Bombs
3
Claude Shannon is known as what?
father of modern computers
father of information theory
father of internet technology
father of modern electronics
4
First Generation computers use what kind of technology?
capacitors
light bulbs
transistors
vacuum tubes
5
The memex machine is a machine that compresses and stores all what into electronic form?
music tapes and cassettes
DVDs and CDs
books, records and communications
letters, files, and school work
6
Fourth Generation computers use this kind of technology.
transistors
vacuum tubes
microprocessors
capacitors
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This is a global system of interconnected computer networks that serve billions of users
xanadu
firefox
powershot
internet
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Alan Turing worked at Bletchley Park during WWII, trying to break what?
German Aircraft
Skulls
German Ciphers
British Ciphers
9
The first actual computer bug was a what?
virus
ant
alligator
moth
10
The Colossus computer was designed to decrypt what?
Region 2 DVDs
treasure maps
high level German communications
LEGO instructions
11
The function of the Turing Machine is similar to that of the modern day what?
CPU
IPad
Hard Drive
Toaster
12
Second Generation computers use what kind of technology?
Microchips
Transistors
Circuits
Capacitors
13
How was the Z3 computer, designed by Konrad Zuse destroyed?
Hacking
Plane Crash
Allied Bombing
Terrorist Attack
14
Who was the creator of the modern computer?
Bill Gates
Alan Turning
Mr. Murry
Steve Jobs
15
Who invented the computer mouse?
Alan Turing
Steve Jobs
Thomas Engelbart
Bill Gates
16
The name given to the demonstration of the world’s first computer console demonstration was
Mother of all Demos
Greatest show on earth
Computer Con #1
End of all things
17
What machine did Vannevar Bush design?
Memex Machine
Mouse
IPad
Television
18
Third generation computers use what kind of technology?
transistors
keyboards
computer mice
integrated circuits
19
Grace Hopper developed the first what for a computer?
keyboard
compiler
mouse
virus
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Ted Nelson was the creator of what?
Project Xanadu
The Manhattan Project
Might Morphin Power Rangers
Ridgewood Robotics