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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 electronic computer? | ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer)
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| What kind of number system did the ABC use? | Binary
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| What machine was created to calculate the trajectory of atrillery shells? | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator)
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| What is the CPU? | Central Processing Unit
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| What computer was built by Mauchly and Eckert and first sold to the U.S Census in 1951? | UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)
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| What is a disadvantage of the first generation computers? | Many vaccum tubes
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| What is an advantage of the Transitor? | It was smaller
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| What is a disadvantage of the Model 650? | It is expensive
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| What does FORTRAN stand for? | FORmula TRANslator
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| What was designed by Grace Murray Hopper, a commodore in the navy? | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
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| What was one of the first medium sized computers, built in the early 1960's? | The Model 650
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| What were punch cards replaced with? | Magnetic tape
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| What computer burned holes in sheets of paper to store numbers for calculations? | ABC
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| What were the calculations displayed on in the ABC? | An odometer type device
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| What was the machine language that represented te status of a switch? | 0s and 1s
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| What calculator took a team of mathematicians three days to solve, now took 20 seconds? | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator)
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| What computer was also known as the "Universal Machine?" | The Stored Program Computer
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| What computer was first sold to the U.S Census Bureau in 1951? | UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)
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| What computer had the ability to read(access) and the ability to write(store) data quickly and reliably? | The Model 650
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| What are the three high level programming languages? | FORTRAN, COBOL, and Basic
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| Which of the three level programming languages evolved to visual basic and is widely used today for Windows programming? | Basic
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