COMPED Final Exam

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
20 ITEMS
Part I

1.____________
It could rightly be
called the first
mechanical
computing device It
was used as far back
as 2,600 B.C. and is
still used today

2.__________________

This was invented by

weaver

3.________________in
LOOM the early 1800 that
uses punched cards to
record data.

4._____________
The first mechanical
calculating machine that
was developed by

5._____________in
the early 1600s. The
device could add and
subtract. Later Gottfried
von Leibnitz developed a
calculator that could also
multiply and divide.

6._____________________
This was invented by weaver
Joseph This is where modern
computer history began. This
machine was proposed by
Charles Babbage in ENGINE
the 1800s which bears the
resemble of todays
computers which is capable
of computing and at the
same time print results.
Jacquered in LOOM the early 1800 that uses
punched cards to record data.

7._______________________

The American chapter of

computer history began
when

8.___________succe
ssfully completed his
tabulating machine for the
Census Bureau in 1890.

ELECTRONIC COMPUTER

9.__________

is
generally credited with
building the first electronic
computer as lowa State
University.

10.__________________

Was developed by Howard

Aiken with the help of

ibm

is the first largescale, general-purpose,

electromechanical
computer. It was
completed in 1994

Test II: Give the

Meaning (10 PTS)
ENIAC EDSAC EDVAC UNIVAC
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