Generation Notes
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What was the first generation of computers called? | ABC's
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| What did ABC stand for? | Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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| What Type of number system did the first computers use? | Binary
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| What did ENIAC stand for? | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator
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| Who created the ENIAC? | John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
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| What purpose did the ENIAC have? | To calculate the trajectory of artillery shells for the military
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| What did the ENIAC accomplish? | Given a problem that took a team of mathematicians three days to solve, it took this machine 20 seconds
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| What does CPU stand for? | Central Processing Unit
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| what does EDVAC stand for? | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
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| What does EDSAC stand for? | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
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| Who designed the EDVAC and EDSAC? | Mauchy. Eckert, and von Neumann
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| What is a "Program"? | list of instructions written in a special language that the computer understands
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| Who invented the "Program"? | Alan Turing and John von Neumann
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