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Computer History
Hardware
Mass Computerization
Data Processing
Data Storage
100
Computer history is broken down into into these eras, spanning only a few decades each.
What is a generation?
100
This component houses a computer's main circuits and is responsible for controlling and directing electronic signals.
What is a motherboard?
100
This company and this individual are largely responsible for the way people interact with personal computers.
What are Microsoft and Bill Gates?
100
This component on the is were all data is organized and calculated.
What is the Central Processing Unit or the CPU?
100
Computers use this "language" as a means to save information in its memory.
What is binary code?
200
Individual computers of the first era were roughly the size of this...
What is an entire room?
200
This internal component keeps the internal circuitry from from melting and catching fire.
What is the heat sink and/or cooling fan?
200
Microsoft's operating system gave their operating system this transparent sounding name
What is Windows?
200
This term refers to how fast a computer can calculate and organize data.
What is clock speed?
200
A computer typically stores all its long-term data in this component.
What is a hard drive?
300
This technological development allowed for computers to be significantly smaller in size than the first generation.
What is the transistor?
300
These two internal components are typically found to the front of the CPU.
What are the hard drive and disk drive?
300
Bill Gates is often thought of as a genius pioneer but his interactions with this company suggest he is ruthless and perhaps slightly underhanded.
What is Apple Computers?
300
Gigahertz, the unit a processor's speed is measured in, measures this. (Remember what Giga means)
What is billion cycles/calculations a second?
300
This unit of stored data is made up of a combination of eight 1s and 0s.
What is a byte?
400
Modern day computers have their computing power and small size attributed to this technological development.
What is the processor or Very Large Scale Integrated circuits?
400
Graphics, network, sound, and USB are all types of these that allow customization of a personal computer.
What are expansion cards?
400
Microsoft strong control of software in the 1980s was challenged by the rise of this causing Microsoft to give away software to fend off competition.
What is the internet and/or the World Wide Web?
400
Data is processed through this simply named cycle.
What is the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle?
400
This number of bytes is the difference of 2 gigabytes and 1,000 megabytes.
What is 1 billion bytes?
500
Programmable, electronic computers have existed since this decade.
What is the 1930s?
500
This component, integrated into the motherboard itself, is responsible for a computer's working memory.
What is the Random Access Memory or RAM?
500
This percent of computers run Microsoft operating systems giving them an overwhelming control of the market.
What is 90 to 95 percent?
500
A processor can potentionally execute multiple calculations at once but it must be designed with multiple of these.
What are cores?
500
Computers do not read binary code as 1s and 0s but actually as electric current being this.
What is turned on or off?