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The first calculator was built by
Marie Jacquard
Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
John Napier
The computing devices invented by Charles Babbage are
Difference Engine and Abacus
Analytical Engine and Slide Rule
Abacus and Slide Rule
Analytical and Difference Engines
The mechanical counting device called Pascaline was invented by .................Pascal.
Blaise
Bloom
John
Philip
A calculating machine that is made of hardwood with cursor of glass and metal is called
Abacus
Difference Engine
Pascaline
Punched Car
Lady Ada Lovelace improved upon the idea of
Babbage’s analytical engine
Babbage’s difference engine
Herman Hollerinth’s machine
Leibnitz’s calculator
Charles Babbage was the first to
Invent slide rule
Invent analytical engine
make census machine
make use of the punched card
Abacus is used for
addition
subtraction
addition and subtraction
multiplication and division
The first calculating device is the
Census machine
Difference engine
Napier's bones
Arrange in a hierarchical order by date, the following inventions: I. Slide rule: II. Pascaline; III. Analytical engine; IV. Difference engine.
I, II, IV and III
Ill, IV, I and II
Ill, IV, II and I
I, II, III and IV
Which of the following was used by Joseph Marie Jacquard in inventing the Loom?
Punched card
Smart card
Smart chip
Sound card
The census machine was invented by
Gottfried von Leibnitz
Herman Hollerith
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Napier's Bone was designed purposely for calculation of
sum and quotient
sum and difference
product and quotient
difference and quotient
Arrange in hierarchical order by date the following inventions: I. - Census machine; II.- Abacus; III.-Slide rule; IV. - Difference engine.
II, III, IV and I
I, III, II and IV
I, IV, III and II
Which of the following output devices was common among the computing devices of the 19th century?
Monitor
Plotter
Printer
Speaker
The pre-computing age device which made use of beads and frames is
Napier’s bone
Leibnitz multiplier
Burrough’s colliding device
Which of the following devices is not a microcomputer
Notebook
Laptop
EDVAC
Desktop
Which of the following computing devices did not exist in the pre-computing age to the 19th century?
ENIAC
Slide Rule
Notebook is an example of..... computer.
macro
mainframe
micro
mini
Which of the following devices is not a microcomputer?
EDVA
C. Laptop
The main difference between a laptop and a desktop is that, a laptop
does not have mouse while a desktop has
uses USB port while desktop uses parallel port
can be connected to the internet while desktop cannot
contain high capacity battery that powers for extensive period while desktop does not
The full meaning of the acronym ENIAC is
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Electronic Numeric Integration Automatic Calculator
Electronic Numeric Integrated Automatic Calculator
Which generation of computers used vacuum tubes in their circuitry?
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
The Slide Rule is accurate to
1-2 decimal places
3-4 decimal places
5 decimal places
6 decimal places
Modern computers compared to earlier computers are
faster and larger
faster and smaller
larger and stronger
less reliable
Choose the incorrect statement about microcomputers.
A microcomputer can be placed on a single silicon chip
A microcomputer can have more processing capability than a mainframe model
ROM chips may be used in micros to permanently store program instruction
Most micros use rigid disk storage devices rather than floppy disk drives
Pascal's calculating machine was useful in
addition and subtraction only
division only
multiplication and division only
multiplication only
Arrange the following inventions in chronological order. I. Slide Rule II. Pascaline III. Analytical Engine IV. Difference Engine
I.II,IV and III
I. IV, III and II
III, IV, II and I
The slide rule is accurate to
What type of computer would be most suitable for a student who lives in a remote village without constant electricity?
Desktop computer
Laptop computer
Mainframe computer
Mini computer
EDSAC was produced using a concept known as constant electricity?
Circuit switching
Packet routing
Packet switching
Stored program
The technology used for the first generation of computers was
vacuum tubes
integrated circuit
transistors
Stored microprocessors
The main distinguishing feature of fifth generation computers is
liberal use of microprocessors,
116 artificial intelligence,
extremely low cost
versatility
The first attempt at using the punch card principle to do mathematical calculations led to the invention of
Charles Babbage Difference Engine
Charles Babbage Analytical Engine
An automatic system is one that
is operated using sophisticated skills
needs fuel before it can be operated by humans
performs different kinds of tasks diligently
requires little or no human intervention to work
The microprocessor that controls a washing machine is known as
bot
console
embedded computer
mainframe computer
Instructions were written computers using to the first generations of computers using
assemblers
low level language
machine language
mnemonics
Addition and subtraction of numbers in Abacus are done using
bars
beads
frame
string
In using the slide rule, multiplication that goes off the scale can be corrected by the following approaches except
resetting the slide
using circular slide rule
using flat scales
using folded scales
A mechanical device that allows the operation of multiplication through repeated addition is the
Jacquard's Loom
Stepped Reckoner
Which of the following statements about the Slide Rule are true? I. Multiplication that goes off the slide can be corrected by resetting the slide. II. Operations of addition can be carried out by directly adding two or more numbers together on the slide. III. Logarithm is used to transform the operations of multiplication and division to addition and subtraction
1 and II only
I and III only
II and III only
1, II and III
