Computer Theory
The name of the number system used by computers.
What is the Binary Number System?
The base material on which the components of an integrated circuit are placed.
What is Silicon?
The name of the first handheld mechanical calculator.
What is the Abacus?
The acronym PC stands for this.
What is Personal Computer?
The world's most common PC operating system.
What is Windows?
Information received by the computer upon which calculations must be performed.
What is Input?
A material with an electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator.
What is a Semiconductor?
The form of energy that flows between the components of a computer.
What is Electricity?
This fruity company made the PC accessible to the general population.
What is Apple?
The company whose operating system came to dominate the PC market.
What is Microsoft?
The results of a series of calculations performed by a computer after it receives input.
What is Output?
This component calculates all arithmetic values and controls the order in which processes are computed.
What is the CPU?
The earliest known mechanical computer dates back to around this time period.
What is 200 BCE?
Before the PC computers were mostly these types of systems.
What are Mainframes?
Early operating systems required this form of user input.
What is command line?
A theoretical device that can receive a variety of inputs from more than one source and then perform calculations before returning the output of those calculations.
What is a Turing Machine?
How a user is able to interact with a computer to give it instructions.
What are Input Devices?
The name of the large computer completed by the United States after World War 2.
What is ENIAC?
The general name of the location in which many early computer advancements were made.
What is Silicon Valley?
The modern system for user input in which graphical objects are used in conjunction with the mouse and keyboard.
What is the GUI?
The proof that computers cannot process all possible inputs that they are able to receive.
What is the Church-Turing Thesis?
The name for the generalized layout of modern PCs.
What is von Neumann Architecture?
The earliest calculations were performed using this method.
What is drawing in the sand?
This company had a reputation known as "Nobody was ever fired for buying from..."
What is IBM?
An early widely used operating system developed at AT&T Bell labs.