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    The document provides a history of early computing devices in a question and answer format. It covers abacuses, Napier's Bones, the Pascaline, Difference Engine, Hollerith desk, Mark I computer, and the contributions of people like Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, the Wozniak and Jobs creating the Apple I computer, and Bill Gates programming the Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers. Grace Hopper is credited with coining the term "debugging" after finding an actual moth was blocking the operation of the Mark I computer.

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    History of Computers

    Q and A Exercise

    The abacus was the first computer?

    TRUE or FALSE?

    What is the FIRST COMPUTER?

    PEOPLE

    What is this device?

    Abacus

    What is this device?

    Napiers Bones

    What is this device?

    Pascaline

    Who is this man?


    A. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    B. Blaise Pascal
    C. Joseph Marie Jacquard
    D. Charles Babbage
    E. Michael Jackson

    What is this device?

    Difference Engine

    Who was the first programmer?


    A. Charles Babbage
    B. Bill Gates
    C. Grace Hopper
    D. Ada Byron
    E. Blaise Pascal

    What is this device?

    Hollerith desk

    This was the first machine to be featured on a


    magazine cover.
    A. Hollerith Desk
    B. Difference Engine
    C. Stepped Reckoner
    D. Analytic Engine
    E. Mark I

    The company that Hollerith built


    A. Census Count Company
    B. Census, Inc.
    C. Hollerith Company
    D. International Business Machines (IBM)
    E. All of the above

    What is this machine?

    Mark I

    Who was the first debugger?

    Grace Hopper
    One of the primary programmers for the
    Mark I was a woman, Grace Hopper.
    Hopper found the first computer "bug": a
    dead moth that had gotten into the Mark
    I and whose wings were blocking the
    reading of the holes in the paper tape.
    The word "bug" had been used to describe
    a defect since at least 1889 but Hopper is
    credited with coining the word
    "debugging" to describe the work to
    eliminate program faults.

    Who created this computer?

    Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

    Forefather of Computer

    ENIAC

    First Commercial Computer


    A. UNIVAC
    B. Apple 1
    C. Altair 8800
    D. ENIAC
    E. IBM

    First PC

    Altair 8800

    Wrote programs for the Altair

    Bill Gates

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