First Lesson

Question 1

What does ENIAC stand for?

Answer 1

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

Question 2

What was the year of ENIAC?

Answer 2

1946

Question 3

What was the year of Luxo Jr.

Answer 3

1986

Question 4

Who programed a computer to control a mechanical drawing machine that is quite capable of making remarkably naturalistic drawings on its own?

Answer 4

Harold Cohen

Question 5

Creator of analytic engine in late 1860’s that was made out of gears, levers and rods.

Answer 5

Charles Babbage

Question 6

What could Charle’s Babbage analytic engine do?

Answer 6

Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide

Question 7

Who invented the z3 calculator?

Answer 7

Konrad Zuse

Question 8

What was the date of the z3 calculator.

Answer 8

December 1941

Question 9

What was the first general purpose calculator that was programmed controlled?

Answer 9

Z3

Question 10

When do the ENIAC project start?

Answer 10

1943

Question 11

When was ENIAC completed?

Answer 11

1964

Question 12

Where was ENIAC started?

Answer 12

at University of Pennsylvania

Question 13

What 2 people designed ENIAC?

Answer 13

John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert

Question 14

Was ENIAC known as a “super calculator”

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

What does EDVAC stand for?

Answer 15

Electronic, Discrete, Variable, Automatic Computer

Question 16

Who were the scientists of EDVAC?

Answer 16

John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert and John von Newman

Question 17

What year was EDVAC created?

Answer 17

1944

Question 18

What was EDVAC suppose to be?

Answer 18

First programmed computer; programs are stored in memory. With the data to be processed.

Question 19

What is the earliest stored program computers?

Answer 19

Manchester Mark 1

Question 20

Who developed the Manchester Mark 1?

Answer 20

Max Newman and Freddy Williams

Question 21

What did the two scientist of EDVAC leave to start in 1947?

Answer 21

UNIVAC

Question 22

1st stored program computer in US?

Answer 22

BINAC

Question 23

What was the name of Harold Cohen’s program that did naturalistic drawings.

Answer 23

AARON

Question 24

What did AARON exactly do?

Answer 24

Make original naturalistic drawings

Question 25

What did UNIVAC stand for?

Answer 25

Universal Automatic Computer

Question 26

What was UNIVAC

Answer 26

1st general purpose electronic and to use a magnetic tap drives and buffer memory.