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Invented the first modern type of mechanical computing machine

Who is Charles Babbage?

100
Method was used to feed instructions into early computing machines
What are Punch cards?
100

IBM stands for this

What is International Business Machines Corporation?


100
Two founders of Microsoft Corporation
Who is Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
100
The first activity in America that spawned the need for a fast calculating machine?
What is The American Census?
200
In 1939, what German scientist and inventor created the first automatic, program-controlled, fully functional, general purpose digital computer
Who is Dr. Konrad Zuse
200
Name of the computer that correctly predicted the outcome of the 1952 American Presidential election?
What is UNIVAC?
200
The digital computer that had more vacuum tubes than any other computer ever made was the__________?
What is ENIAC (it had 18,000 vacuum tubes)
200

Given credit for the term "bug" , invented COBOL

Who was Grace Hopper?

200

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

Who invented the microchip?

300
Constructed the "ABC," an early vacuum tube-based computer in 1939-41, at Iowa State University
Who are John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
300
This computer company was founded in 1976 as one of the first personal computer companies on the market.
What is Apple?
300

The fourth generation of computers is characterized by this. 

What is the microprocessor?

300

Invented the machine that is considered the theoretical foundation of modern computing.

What is Alan Turing? 

300

One of the earliest counting devices used for mathematical calculations.

What is the Abacus (c. 3000 BCE)?

400
Founders of Apple
Who are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne
400

Put off a lot of heat in early computers.

What are vacuum tubes (values)? 
400

Once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers

What was Bletchley Park?

400

Pascal

Who invented first calculator?
400

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly designed and built the famous ENIAC machine in 1946. What does ENIAC stand for?

What is Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer?

500

He invented the integrated circuit.

Who was Jack Kilby?
500

Wo invented the first MARK series of computers?

Howard Aiken

500

Who invented the “Difference Engine” and “Analytical Engine”? 

Babbage and Mueller

500

Considered the first woman programmer

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

The first computer invented by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. 

What was Apple I?