History Documentary
The inventor that calculated and printed mathematical tables on a Difference Engine.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This is where the CPU is located.
What is the motherboard?
A long-lasting storage where the operating system is located.
What is the hard drive?
These are the three fundamental operations in logic gates.
What are AND, OR, and NOT?
The government operation that Herman Hollerith developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator for.
This is known as the brain of the computer.
What is the CPU?
This is the material that a CPU is currently made from.
What is silicon?
A short-term memory device that allows you to run multiple programs at a time.
What is RAM?
These are the two states transistors use to perform complex actions.
What are ON/1 and OFF/0?
The Colossus Computer.
What is the device that cracked the German code during WWII?
This draws the heat away from the CPU.
What is the heat sink?
These are the millions of semiconductor devices etched onto the silicon chip.
What are transistors?
This is the number of states that can be represented with one bit.
What is two?
This is when the output of an AND gate is 1/ON.
What is both of the inputs are 1/ON?
What was the first large scale digital computer?
This converts AC to DC power for the internal components of a computer.
What is the power supply?
The unit of measurement of clock speed, or CPU speed.
What is gigahertz (GHz, billions of clock cycles per second)?
This is the number of bits in a nibble.
What is 4?
This logic gate has one input.
What is the NOT gate?
This computer had 18,000 glowing vacuum tubes and took up 1,800 square feet.
What is the ENIAC?
This stores the date and time, as well as the BIOS.
What is the CMOS chip?
The part of the CPU that performs calculations and logic operations.
What is the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)?
This is how you can access a memory cell in RAM.
What is randomly?
This is the branch of mathematics that is the foundation of logic gates.
What is Boolean Algebra?