The Processor
Another name for transistors?
Second-Generation computer
What is it implemented as
semiconductor memory
Containing fixed info for that group is known as...
master card
The first random-access digital storage device...
Williams Tube
Herman Hollerith
Charles Ranlett Flint
Thomas J. Watson
The founder of IBM.
What is Vacuum Tubes?
Electro-mechanical binary computers
What is memory?
It stores core memory information in the computer
storage mechanism where data is recorded by electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of 1 or more rotating disks?
-(A) disk storage- (B)magnetic tape drives- (C)IBM
disk storage
Delay audio signals feeding loudspeakers to compensate for speed of sound in air...
Delay lines
William Shockley
John Bardeen
Walter Houser Brattain
Founders/Inventors of transistors.
Between transistors and vacuum tubes: which was developed during the war?
Vacuum Tubes
What are the two kinds of memory?
Volatile and non-volatile
In 2k12, some voting machines still used ____ for voting.
(A) audit cards (B) punched cards (C) primary data storage (D) Ballot Box
punched cards
Invented in 1932 in Austria, but was widely used in the 1950's...
Magnetic drums
Who created Williams Tube?
Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn
(Williams-Kilburn tube)
It is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit.
Microprocessor
Flash Memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically erasable programmable (EEPROM)
Non-volatile
What does IBM stand for, when was it founded, and what was its original name?
Last question hint: (CTR)
-International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
- Founded in 1911
-Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)
More Info: One of the world's largest IT companies (Over 170 countries)
It displays a grid of dots on a cathode-ray tube. These dots read by a thin metal sheet in front of display. Electrombeam strikes illumination and a lifetime depends on electrical resistance of phosphor... What am I?
Williams tube duh... Key word: Tube
Created the first computer program...
Ada Lovelace
Baron Jons Jackob
Discovered silicon (SI)-is the basic component of processors today
System Ram (DRAM), Video Ram (VRAM), Processor L1 and L2 cache
Volatile
Digital Data Storage (DDS) is a(n) ________ form of storing data.
(A) Optical
(B) Magnetic
(C) Digital
(D) electronical
(E) Physical
(B) Magnetic
What kind of memory does Secure Digital (SD) use in the nonvolatile section?
Flash Memory
Who created the magnetic tape?
Fritz Pfleumer in 1928