Computer Hardware
This piece of storage hardware could be considered the "working memory" of the computer.
What is RAM? (Random Access Memory)
This early computer was originally built by the US to calculate artillery tables.
What is the ENIAC?
1111 in B10
15
The answer in base 2 to:
10010011
+ 10101001
What is 100111100?
The answer to 101010 + 101011.
What is 1110111?
This unit is used to measure the speed of a CPU.
What are hertz?
This was a very early home game console that used plastic overlays on the TV screen for most of it's graphics.
What is the Magnavox Odyssey?
This base 10 number is 11101010 in base 2.
What is 11101010?
1101101
+1111101
11101010
4A in base 2
what is 1001010?
The number of bits in a Byte.
What is 8?
This was the first computer to have RAM.
What is the SSEM or the Manchester Baby?
The highest base 10 number that can be represented by 8 bits of binary.
What is 255?
11100010
-1000111
10011011
10001101001010001 in hex
What is 11A51?
This component converts AC to DC power for the computer to use.
What is the power supply?
This computer, built by a company you may not expect was considered the first workstation.
What is the Xerox Alto?
This base 2 number is 799 in decimal.
What is 1100011111?
The base 10 answer to this subtraction problem between signed base 2 numbers.
0011111
-0111111
What is -32?
This ancient Greek computer is one of the earliest known.
What is the Antikythera Mechanism?
This component allows all the individual parts of the computer to talk to each other.
What is the motherboard?
This mainframe computer built by Eckert and Mauchly and released in 1951 was one of the first commercial computers.
What is the UNIVAC?
Convert this 8 bit signed base 2 number to base 10:
10011001
What is 103?
The base 10 answer to this subtraction problem between signed base 2 numbers.
0011000101
- 0110110110
What is -241?
AFB in base 8, 2, and 10
b2: 101011111011
B8: 5373
B10: 2811