Question | Answer |
What was the first Electronic Computer? When and who built it? | ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer.John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry.Between 1939-1942 |
What is the ENIAC? | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator. |
What is CPU? | Central Processing unit. |
What is the EDVAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. |
What is the EDSAC | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer. |
Who designed and built the EDVAC and the EDSAC? | Mauchly, Eckert, and von Neumann. |
What language was the EDVAC and the EDSAC using? | Machine language. 0's and 1's to represent the status of a switch. |
What is the UNIVAC? Who built it? When was it sold? | Mauchly and Eckert.First sold to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951. |
What are some Disadvatages about the First Generation Computers? | Many vacuum tubes and they were large. Very expensive. |
What is an Advantage of the first generation computers? | The ability to perform up to 1,000 calculations per second. |
Who built the transistor? | William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain of Bell Laboratories. |
When was the Transistor built? | 1947 |
What is some advatages of the Transistor? | Smaller. Less Expensive.Calculating speeds up to 10,000 calculations per second. |
What was the First medium sized computer? | The model 650. |
Whats a disadvantage of the model 650? | Expensive. |
Whats some Advatages of the model 650? | Smaller.Capable of handling a flood of paperwork. |