Who invented the first modern type of mechanical computing machine?
What is Charles Babbage
100
What method was used to feed instructions into early computing machines?
What is Punch cards
100
What does IBM stand for?
What is International Business Machines Corporation
100
Who founded Microsoft Corporation?
What is Bill Gates and Paul Allen
100
What was 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?
What is Dr. Konrad Zuse
200
What was the 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
Who invented the "mouse?" in the early 1960's?
What is Dr. Douglas Engelbart
200
What was the next significant event in world history that advanced the development of computing technology?
What is The Space Race
300
Who constructed the "ABC," an early vacuum tube-based computer in 1939-41, at Iowa State University?
What is John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
300
What was the first commercially available computer that businesses could purchase?
What is UNIVAC, 1951
300
Who developed the first "floppy disks" in 1971?
What is Alan Shugart led a team at IBM that developed the 8 inch floppy diskette for data and program storage
300
Both the Americans and the British built electromechanical code-breaking machines during the 1939 to 1945 period. What was the odd name of these machines?
What is Bombes
400
What was Dr. Konrad Zuse's computer called?
What is Z-3 Computer
400
The term NOS, in computer terminology, stands for _________ __________ _________.
What is Network Operating System
400
Who developed the World Wide Web?
What is Tim Berners-Lee
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
In January 1977, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and a former marketing manager at Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor incorporated Apple Computer. Who was this third person?
What is Armas C. "Mark" Markkula
500
What was the name of the German cypher machine used in World War II?
What is The Enigma
500
When did the World-Wide Web enter the Internet scene?
What is 1991
500
Who was the first woman programmer?
What is Ada Lovelace
500
Built in 1949, the BINAC was made by the Eckert-Mauchly division of Remington-Rand, and had 700 tubes. What did BINAC stand for?