Computer History
Internal Parts
Miscellaneous
Digital Storage
The Internet
100

This innovation allowed personal computers to become more user friendly in the 1980s.

What is the mouse?

or 

What is the graphical user interface?

100

This internal part executes instructions and is known as "the brains" of the computer.

What is CPU or Central Processing Unit?

100

Keyboards, mice, scanners, and sensors all perform what function for a computer?

What is input?
100
Computers use this language to communicate.

What is binary?

100

These are small pieces of a larger file sent through the Internet.

What are packets?
200

This ancient device used beads to add and subtract.

What is the abacus?

200

This part converts electricity into usable energy for the computer.

What is the power supply?

200

The physical parts of a computer are called this.

What is hardware?

200
Bit stands for this.

What is binary digit?


200

These devices act like traffic cops directing movement of files on the Internet.

What are routers?
300

This was designed by Charles Babbage in 1854.  It was never completed.

What is the analytical engine?
300

This large plate connects all of the internal parts of the computer and allows them to communicate.  Also known as the "nervous system" of the computer.

What is the motherboard?

300

Name the two most common operating systems.

Windows and MacOS

300

This is represented by one byte.

What is a letter or number?
300

These are huge computers that store files and give them to people requesting them.

What are servers?

400
Name one of the two companies that become famous for selling personal computers in the 1980s.
What is Apple Macintosh?

or

What is IBM?

400

This part is the long term storage of a computer.

What is the hard drive?

400

Name the four steps of the information processing cycle in order.

What is input, processing, output, storage?
400
There are exactly this many bytes in a kilobyte.

What is 1024?

400

Fiber optic cables are faster that copper wires because of this reason.

What is they carry the signal as light?

500

This was the main purpose for designing the ENIAC computer in 1946.

What is to create military firing tables?

500

Give the full name of the part that acts as short term memory for a computer.

What is Random Access Memory?

500

This important software performs many jobs including providing a user interface, managing programs, running files, and keeping the system secure.

What is the operating system?

500
Starting with byte, name the five levels of digital storage in order.

What is byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte?

500

This is the maximum number of bits that can be sent at once on a network connection.

What is bandwidth?

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