5 Generations
Terminology
Word
Windows
History
100
Generation
What is a major technology change in hardware and now software?
100
definition of the first "computer"
Who is a person who performs calculations and tabulations?
100
Header and Footer
What is the top and bottom portion of a Word Document?
100
GUI
What is a Graphical User Interface?
100
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Who built a loom to read punched holes on sheets of hardwood for the family weaving business?
200
First Generation
What are a vacuum tube, costly, unreliable, has switches and needs AC?
200
Abacus
What is rings that side over rods?
200
WordArt
What is text that has special text formatting like shadows, outlines and curvy lines?
200
Window
What is a rectangular area on the desktop which usually contains a number of standard parts like a title bar, status bar or scroll bars?
200
Charles Babbage
Who was friends with Ada Lovelace and designed the Difference Engine?
300
Third Generation
What had integrated circuits and supported high-level programming languages?
300
Hardware
What are the physical parts of a computer?
300
Bullet
What is a list organized with styles like dots, symbols or pictures?
300
Ctrl - S
What is a way to Save your work?
300
Herman Hollerith
Who was the father of modern automatic computation and developed a mechanical tabulator using punch cards or the census?
400
Second Generation
What is transistors, UNIVAC, faster?
400
Clip Art
What are pre-drawn pictures that can be added to a page?
400
Superscript
What is small letters above the text line?
400
Dialog box
What is a drop list, radio button, slide or text box?
400
Konrad Zuse
Who developed the Z1-Z4, the mechanical calculator => first binary computer?
500
1980 - present
What is the Fifth Generation?
500
Browser
What are programs that let your navigate the WWW or Internet?
500
Font
What is the size and style or a typeface?
500
Control Panel
What is a window that contains icons for things like the hardware, sound, appearance and programs?
500
VisiCalc
What is the first computerized spreadsheet program?
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