CIT 102
Module 1
Unit 1
Fig 3.1
1) Who was Charles Babbage ?
Ans : British Mathematician
2) What was Charles Babbage known for ?
ANS: First initiator in the evolution of today’s Computer System.
3) The development of the computing machinery was dated back to ?
ANS : The time of Abacus 3000BC
4) The first Computer Machinery built by Babbage was in ?
ANS: 1812
5) The first Computer Machinery built by Babbage was called ?
ANS : The difference Engine
6) What was the difference Engine built to do?
ANS : To compute logarithm tables and print results
7) In what year did Babbage conceive the idea of building the Analytical engine ?
ANS: 1833
8) What was the Analytical engine capable of doing?
ANS : Calculating Additions, Subtractions, Multiplications and Divisions by using instructions codded on cards
9) When was the Analytical engine completed and by who?
ANS: 1871 by Charles Babbage son.
10) Who is the father of computers ?
ANS: Charles Babbage
11) Who wrote the first program for Babbage Analytical engine?
ANS: Ada Augusta Bryon also known as Ada Lovelace
12) In terms of design how can Babbage’s machine be described
ANS: Mechanical
13) The first electrical computer was ?
ANS: Mark 1
The first Electronically built computer was and In what year
ANS: ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator and in 1945
14) The first Computer to perform arithmetic and logical operations is ?
ANS: EDSAC ( Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer )
15) After EDSAC which computer followed?
ANS: EDVAC ( Electronic Discrete Automatic Computer
16) Today’s Computers are what in design ?
ANS : Electronic
17) Most early Computers were developed for what purpose?
ANS: Scientific and Military purposes
18) The First Commercial Computer was ?
ANS: UNIVAC ( Universal Automatic Computer
19) What did First generation Computers use?
ANS; Vacuum tubes
20) What did 2nd generation Computers use?
ANS; Transistors
21) What did Third generation Computers use ?
ANS : Integrated Circuits
22) What did 4th generation Computers use ?
ANS: Large Scale Integrated Circuits ( LSI ) and very large scale Integrated Circuits ( VLSI )
23) Today’s Computers fall into what group?
ANS: 4th Generation
24) 5th Generation computers are expected to do what ?
ANS: Mimic Human Intelligence
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