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28 Cards in this Set
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What were three early calculators?
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Abacus, Pascaline, and Jacquard's Loom
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Who were the weavers of algebra?
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Charles Babbage & Ada Augusta
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Who created the Pascaline?
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Blaise Pascal
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How did Jacquard's Loom work?
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It used a series of punch cards which controlled the actions of the loom.
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Who is the father of computing?
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Charles Babbage
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What did Babbage do?
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He built the difference engine and the analytical engine.
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What was the difference engine?
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A machine designed by Babbage which could calculate mathmathical tables using punch cards. (wasn't actually ever completed)
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Who was Herman Hollerith?
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Built the first census tabulating machine in 1860.
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How did Hollerith's machine work?
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It used punched cards for data storage. Each punch represented a number, and two punches a letter.
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Who was the founder of IBM?
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Thomas Watson, IBM at one point had 90% of all tabulation machines.
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Who was the father of the Digital Computer?
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John Atanasoff
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What were 4 properties of the Atanasoff Berry computer?
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used electricity, binary no. system, condensers,
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What were 3 of the first military computers?
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Enigma, Colossus & Eniac
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What was the Enigma?
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A computer that was use for cryptographics (secret coding).
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Who built the Enigma?
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Arthur Scherbius
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Who was Konrad Zane?
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built the first binary computer, called ZI
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What was the Colossus?
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It was a computer that was able to decipher the Enigma code.
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Who was the main designer of Colossus?
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Alan Turing
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Where was Colossus built?
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Bletchley Park, a top secret British government building
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What was the Eniac?
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first general purpose electronic computer (if you ignore Atanasoff's & Colossus)
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What is Eniac an acronym for?
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (E.N.I.A.C.)
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Who built the Eniac?
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John Mauchley & Presper Eckert
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Who later improved the Eniac math functions?
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John Von Neumann
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What were three early programming languages?
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Fortran, Cobol, and Algol
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What were two early programming languages that were designed to be universal?
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PL/1 and Algol 68
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What the original purpose of C language?
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they wanted a high level language with low level contructs
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Who developed C?
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Kernigan & Ritchie
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What is C++?
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It is C with object-oriented capabilities added
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