C. Computer: D. Tally Stick

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1.

A “person” whose job is to perform or carry out calculation or computations

A. Arithmometer
B. Jacquard Loom
C. Computer
D. Abacus

2. It is a mechanical device used to aid an individual in performing mathematical calculations.

A. Arithmometer
B. Jacquard Loom
C. Computer
D. Abacus

3. The punch cards used in the mechanism inside this device laid the very foundation for the modern
computer programming.

A. Arithmometer
B. Jacquard Loom
C. Computer
D. Abacus

4. It is the first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine.

A. Arithmometer
B. Jacquard Loom
C. Computer
D. Abacus

5. A machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically which was Invented by Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz in 1672.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Slide Rule
D. Tally Stick

6. It is an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Slide Rule
D. Tally Stick

7. A device Invented by John Napier in 1614, this Allowed the operator to multiply, divide and calculate
square and cube roots by moving the rods around and placing them in specially constructed boards.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Napier’s Bones
D. Tally Stick

8. It was the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used.
And was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between
1642 and 1644.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Napier’s Bones
D. Tally Stick

9. Invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890, this device assist in summarizing information and accounting.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Napier’s Bones
D. Tabulating Machine

10. The first electro-mechanical computer invented by by Howard H. Aiken in 1943.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Harvard Mark 1
D. Tabulating Machine

11. It was the first electronic digital computing device invented by Professor John Atanasoff and
graduate student Clifford Berry at Iowa State University between 1939 and 1942.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. Pascaline
C. Harvard Mark 1
D. Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

12. It was the first electronic general-purpose computer developed by John Presper Eckert and John
Mauchly.

A. Stepped Reckoner
B. ENIAC
C. Harvard Mark 1
D. Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

13. It was the first commercial computer designed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

A. UNIVAC 1
B. ENIAC
C. Harvard Mark 1
D. Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

14. The First Stored Program Computer designed by Von Neumann in 1952. It has a memory to hold
both a stored program as well as data.
A. UNIVAC 1
B. ENIAC
C. EDVAC
D. Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

15. It is the First Portable computer released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation.

A. Osborne 1
B. ENIAC
C. EDVAC
D. Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

16. The first computer company founded in 1949 by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

A. Computer innovation Corporation


B. Electronic Company Incorporated
C. Electronic Controls Company
D. Computer Movement Enterprises

17. The ____________ brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousands of integrated circuits
were built onto a single silicon chip

A. Floppy disk
B. Microprocessor
C. Central Processing Unit (CPU)
D. Motherboard

18. The development of the ___________ was the hallmark of the third generation of computers.

A. Floppy disk
B. Microprocessor
C. Integrated circuit
D. Motherboard

19. _______ replaced vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers.

A. Floppy disk
B. Microprocessor
C. Integrated circuit
D. Transistor

20. The first computers used ___________ for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often
enormous, taking up entire rooms.

A. Vacuum tubes
B. Microprocessor
C. Integrated circuit
D. Transistor

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